Men Quotes
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
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All men of action are dreamers.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
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'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.
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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
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Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.
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What moves me is watching young men bond together and tap into the magic that arises when they focus with their whole heart and soul on something greater than themselves. Once you've experienced that, it's something you never forget.
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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
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Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
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Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.
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When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
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I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
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Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.
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So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,- The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
