Men Quotes

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

There are things stronger than the strongest man.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

God made the water but men made the wine.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Progress is the life-style of man.

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

Women are more credulous than men.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions.

[Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of an outstanding athlete and a very good man.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.