Men Quotes
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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
William Sloane Coffin
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He who knoweth and understandeth Christ's life, knoweth and understandeth Christ Himself; and in like manner, he who understandeth not His life, doth not understand Christ Himself. And he who believeth on Christ, believeth that His life is the best and noblest life that can be, and if a man believe not this, neither doth he believe on Christ Himself.
Martin Luther
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... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!
Selma Lagerlof
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We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.
Nick Cannon
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They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad
William Shakespeare
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
William Penn
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
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It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.
Carol Leifer
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Jonathan Swift
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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
Diana Ross
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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
Peter O'Toole
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The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.
Bill Foster
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A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.
Russell Baker
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I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
Jim Crace
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn
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The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy, vast hurrying years.
William Howard Taft
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In the future maybe. At the moment there's a war on against men and against the family, and we need to put an end to it.
Erin Pizzey
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
William Hazlitt
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Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.
Nikephoros of Chios
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
William Congreve
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Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
Ray Bradbury
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The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.
Ray Bradbury