Men Quotes
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
William Cowper
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I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
Ray Bradbury
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Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.
Lysander Spooner
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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.
William Shakespeare
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Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it.
George W. Plunkitt
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If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.
James Stewart
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
William Barclay
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
William Faulkner
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I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.
Sarah Palin
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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
Ernest Hemingway
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
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When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
Steve Jobs
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Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me.
Allison Anders
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If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
John Tillotson
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
Thomas More
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For many years, I picked the wrong men, or they picked me. I think if you don't feel attractive or worth something as a woman, you attract men who don't really look after you. That's what happened to me, but I realise that those relationships were like a journey, helping me to learn something about myself.
Lesley Nicol
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A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.
Albert Mohler
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
William Butler Yeats
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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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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
James Russell Lowell