Men Quotes
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When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.
C. S. Lewis
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It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.
G. H. Hardy
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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.
Kim Cattrall
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
Francis Bacon
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The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.
L. Tom Perry
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I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.
Bill Burr
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What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
William Graham Sumner
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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'.
Drew Barrymore
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I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.
Debbie Reynolds
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
William Butler Yeats
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Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
Margery Allingham
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.
David Walliams
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There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.
Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
Vita Sackville-West
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
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Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
J. I. Packer
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch
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War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.
William Cullen Bryant
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln
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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Dorothy Day
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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Aristotle