Men Quotes · Page 1,865

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon…

— Edmund Burke

Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a…

— David Gemmell

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the…

— Charles M. Schwab

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy!…

— Seneca the Younger

L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines. Man is certainly crazy. He could…

— Michel de Montaigne

I was so excited to meet Chrishell because she's kind of a trailblazer for me in the queer space. She was publicly…

— Gabby Windey

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an…

— Rumi

“O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that…

— John Bunyan

It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man…

— Laurens van der Post

Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles,…

— Garry Wills

In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull…

— Maia Wojciechowska

No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st…

— Lysander Spooner

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,…

— Walt Whitman

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page…

— George Leonard

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so…

— Edmund Burke

In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things,…

— Olivia Wilde

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it…

— Horace Mann

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse,…

— Plato

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning…

— Joseph C. Aldrich

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to…

— Lord David Cecil

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from…

— Orson Scott Card

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter…

— John Dewey

A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he…

— Anne Beatts

Remember what I’ve told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle…

— Anne Rice

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be…

— Christoph Schonborn

I just want my kids to grow up to become good men and that starts with understanding the world around them. That's…

— Travis Browne

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow... The stress and the fears and anxiety…

— Enson Inoue

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make…

— John Keegan

When it comes to a vintage store, we're not concerned with men's or women's. I want you to treat it like no…

— Tan France

Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It…

— Sam Ervin

The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of…

— Thomas Jefferson

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

— Bob Woodward

The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film…

— Meryl Streep