Men Quotes

• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Greatness
  • Patient

• I once looked in the mirror at myself and noticed that, without a doubt, I am a sexy man. In fact, I don't think I'll ever get married...it just wouldn't be fair for my spouse to catch me enjoying a look in the mirror more than having sex with her.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Thinking
  • Doubt
  • Sex

• And what's more wonderful, when big loads foilOne ant or two to carry, quickly thenA swarm flock round to help their fellow-men.

  

  John Clare
  • Men
  • Help

• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Men
  • Funny

• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

  

  William Osler
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Science

• To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kind
  • Enemy
  • Grace

• To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes really are and do, who puts up the money and backs Fascism in every country, and who owns the nations under such regimes, and why the natives of all Fascist countries must be driven into harder work, less money, reduced standards of living, poverty and desperation so that the men and corporations who found, subsidize and own Fascism can grow unbelievably rich.

  

  George Seldes
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.

  

  Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
  • Reading
  • Joy
  • Taught

• The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Honesty

• Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Universe

• I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Fiction
  • Bits
  • Rays

• A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Knows
  • Said
  • Week

• The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Men
  • Art
  • Difficult

• Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Speak
  • Bridges
  • Deck

• A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Men
  • Save
  • Seduce

• Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Health
  • Breathe
  • Nervous

• Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Mistake
  • Clever

• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  

  William James
  • Failure
  • Secret
  • Achievement

• I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.

  

  Katie Price
  • Men

• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Men
  • Forever

• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Men
  • Talent
  • Common

• American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison.... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • American
  • Literature
  • Judge

• Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • True
  • Fashion

• Palming separates the men from the boys!

  

  Ed Marlo
  • Men
  • Boys

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