Men Quotes
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.
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Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
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Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
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Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find that the ranks have perceptibly thinned. The longshore captain is still there, many of the men who are not any older than myself, but their viewpoint is not that of a man who sailed his square rigged ship out one morning with China as his destination.
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Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.
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The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.
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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
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As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.
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It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.
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There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
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In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
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I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
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A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
