Men Quotes · Page 626

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

— Samuel Johnson

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

— Robertson Davies

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

— Josh Billings

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

— Thomas Jefferson

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Game shows are like golf and tennis are for some men. It's not like going to work.

— Nipsey Russell

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.

— Cyril of Alexandria

I admire anyone who puts their head down and works for what they want. And I know women who do that daily,…

— Jalen Hurts

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember…

— Lady Gaga

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has…

— Wilhelm Reich

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched…

— Robert Kennedy

Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I…

— Hugh Hefner

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know…

— Anne Enright

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man…

— Jane Austen

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance…

— John Milton

...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being…

— Abraham Lincoln

Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from…

— Paul Ryan

Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do…

— Christine de Pizan

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way…

— Peter Weiss

First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have…

— Andre Agassi

Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of…

— Tasha Tudor

All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of…

— Luc de Clapiers

This is a marvel of the universe: To fling a thought across a stretch of sky-- Some weighty message, or a yearning…

— Josephine Preston Peabody

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

— Saul Bellow

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with…

— Charles Bukowski

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

— Mary Hunter Austin

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

— Nikola Tesla

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

— Simone Weil

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

— Alexander Pope

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

— Thomas Carlyle

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

— Harry Anderson

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is,…

— Matthew Henry

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

— Hesiod