Men Quotes · Page 573

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

— Oscar Wilde

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

— Gabriel Iglesias

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

— Alfred the Great

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

— Kate Atkinson

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

— Mark Harmon

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

— George Eliot

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

— Roy Hattersley

Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of…

— Helen Keller

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night…

— Jim Garrison

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but…

— Blaise Pascal

But some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they…

— Marguerite Henry

For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in past battles…

— Jim Mattis

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are…

— Gerolamo Cardano

Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must…

— Joseph Alleine

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all…

— Charles Dickens

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of…

— B. C. Forbes

To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond…

— Arthur C. Clarke

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of…

— John Calvin

I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived,

— William J. Clinton

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

— Kristin Cashore

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

— Ernest Hello

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that…

— Matthew Arnold

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

— Thomas Watson

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

— James F. Cooper

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

— St. Jerome

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

— Anonymous

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

— Charles Darwin

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

— J. G. Holland

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

— Clifford D. Simak

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

— Horace Mann

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

— Elbert Hubbard

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

— A. P. Herbert

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

— Leonard Ravenhill