Men Quotes

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Men practice war; beasts do not.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

I'll keep waiting because I'm a young man. I'm not as old as they think.

Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.

Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I love the role that men play in our lives.

What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man a monster.

A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.

They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.

I didn't say anything. Got nothing to say. I'm a married man; I don't need a relationship with another man.

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

Now, if you're an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: 'Half-man, half-amazing.'

It's my job to make him look good. He's a very good looking man, so it's my job to keep him looking good.

I am a tropical black man.

They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'

I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.