Men Quotes
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
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Money is what makes a man act funny.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
William Wordsworth
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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
Ray Bradbury
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Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.
Sara Gruen
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Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
Herbert Spencer
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Seneca the Younger
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
William S. Burroughs
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Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
Stanley Baldwin
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
William Ellery Channing
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"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."
William Goldman
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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
George Will
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Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
William Shakespeare
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Whatever men say, women know;
Christina Stead
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A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'
Sandra Bullock
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How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
Helen Keller
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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
John Ruskin
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
Willem Dafoe
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
George Horace Lorimer
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Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
Carolyn Heilbrun
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!
Tom Lehrer
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The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
George Horace Lorimer