Men Quotes
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The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.
H. L. Mencken
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When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.
Sarah Gadon
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I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.
Mary Frann
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In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.
Olaf Stapledon
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I paused, watching the swallows; for they seemed to me the symbol, in their swift, sure curvetting, all daring and balance and surprise, of the delicate poise and motion of Art, that visits no two men alike, in a world where no two things of all the things there be, are quite the same.
John Galsworthy
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Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.
Lalita Tademy
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White
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Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
Albert Einstein
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
Plato
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
Nicolas Malebranche
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For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.
Charles E. Wilson
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.
Marco Polo
