Men Quotes
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.
William Shakespeare
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca the Younger
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It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
Anton Webern
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What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
William O. Douglas
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One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
William Winwood Reade
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love...
Sigmund Freud
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There were about a thousand things I liked better than this part, in which we talked about women like they were just things. I tried to imagine what it would be like if gay were normal and all of us were gay. Would we objectify men in the same way?
Bill Konigsberg
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt
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But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
Saul Bellow
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
William Godwin
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?
William Gurnall
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My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
Henry Louis Gates
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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Thomas Carlyle
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Seneca the Younger
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The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
F. B. Meyer
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.
Teresa Medeiros
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
Seneca the Younger
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There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
William Shakespeare
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It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
William Penn
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
Carl L. Becker