Men Quotes
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A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
Kabir
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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
William Butler Yeats
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There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
C. S. Lewis
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Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Lincoln Steffens
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If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
Oliver Cromwell
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Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
Eric Sevareid
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I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.
Alison Wright
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I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.
Lauren Shuler Donner
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The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Studies show that women laugh at men they're attracted to, and men are attracted to women who laugh at them.
Allan Pease
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More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Joseph P. Kennedy
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
John Stuart Blackie
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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
Constance Baker Motley
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For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.
Scott Foley
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The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.
Humphry Davy
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I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.
Caroline Winberg
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Aristotle
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His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.
William Hazlitt
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We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.
Deeyah Khan
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The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists
W. H. Auden
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I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.
Tahereh Mafi
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In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.
Ann Cotton