Men Quotes

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

I'm not sure that being a man in the fashion industry has any advantage over being a woman. Why would it?

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she’s got on.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Man alone can enslave man.

A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.

When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.