Men Quotes
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I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
Dolly Parton
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
Carter G. Woodson
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
William Hazlitt
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."
William Goldman
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope
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The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".
Susanne Langer
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In terms of playing like a straight leading man type thing, I feel like all these guys are kind of not necessarily leading men but straight kind of characters. Even though they may seem bizarre or strange, I feel like I think everybody's nuts. I mean, I really do. And the weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.
Johnny Depp
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Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.
Elijah Muhammad
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It’s good when a man has a sense of humor. Serious men – too hard for me.
Ornella Muti
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
Thomas A. Edison
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Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
William O. Douglas
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The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
Anthony Trollope
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Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
Gautama Buddha
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You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.
Catherynne M. Valente
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If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
Ernest Jennings Ford
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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
Saul Bellow
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.
William Shakespeare
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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.
Scott Pelley
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Keep death and exile daily before thine eyes, with all else that men deem terrible, but more especially Death. Then wilt thou never think a mean thought, nor covet anything beyond measure. (161).
Epictetus