Men Quotes · Page 543

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

— Plato

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

— Edward P. Jones

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

— Jim Jarmusch

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

— Socrates

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

— Anonymous

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

— W. H. Davies

Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Like many black men growing up in London, I have been stopped and searched by several policemen. I was 12 years old…

— David Lammy

I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I…

— Haile Selassie

Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read…

— Terry Pratchett

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than…

— Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the…

— Ravi Zacharias

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people…

— John Lennon

Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with…

— Benjamin Peirce

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone…

— Margaret Thatcher

Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a…

— Jerome Lawrence

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against…

— Alan Moore

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how…

— John Steinbeck

It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount…

— Mark E. Petersen

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

— Garrison Keillor

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

— Anonymous

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

— Gautama Buddha

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

— J. Sidlow Baxter

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

— George Eliot

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.

— Karin Slaughter

“Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things?”

— Sarah J. Maas

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

— Willa Cather

Nothing fazes me. I'm like some kinda Space man on his way to Mars with a big gun and a whole lot…

— Rob Campbell

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

— George Orwell

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

— William Faulkner

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

— Hilda Doolittle

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and…

— Samuel Adams

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

— Ezra Taft Benson