Men Quotes
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Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
Jerry Costello
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
Aaron Staton
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In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.
Charles Duhigg
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
Ann Druyan
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The system of scholastic disputations encouraged in the Universities of the middle ages had unfortunately trained men to habits of indefinite argumentation, and they often preferred absurd and extravagant propositions, because greater skill was required to maintain them; the end and object of such intellectual combats being victory and not truth.
Charles Lyell
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
Bernard Levin
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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
Parker Posey
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
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Societies in which men were unwilling to dispose of themselves in war were societies that usually got disposed of. Societies that were protected were protected by killers, which is why I call the traditional role of men the role of killer-protector.
Warren Farrell
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Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.
Jenson Button
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A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law.
Jacques Maritain
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.
Irina Shayk
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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
Robert Baden-Powell
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If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
John Lancaster Spalding
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I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
Elizabeth Berg
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May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
Umar
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
Orson Welles
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There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
Bessie Smith
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'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'
Jack Vance
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to men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.
Pope John Paul II
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The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.
William Jennings Bryan
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The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
J. I. Packer
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Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!
Donald Glover