Men Quotes

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

Bells, the poor man's only music.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.

Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.

Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.

I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, "You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!" They were great guys, too.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play