Men Quotes
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It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
Lord Dunsany
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
William Shakespeare
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The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
Catherynne M. Valente
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From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
Jimmy Reid
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E. B. White
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It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens.
James Harvey Robinson
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The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.
Jacques Maritain
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I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt
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Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
William Cowper
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Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner
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In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
Ashton Holmes
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
Victor Hugo
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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
William Wordsworth
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The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
Napoleon Hill
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
Victor Hugo
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Gene Fowler
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Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
Leos Carax
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Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.
Bryan Singer
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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
William Wordsworth
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Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.
Vera Brittain
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I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.
MaryJanice Davidson
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If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
Vito Fossella