Men Quotes · Page 647

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

— George Foreman

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but…

— Henry Miller

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

— Charles Baudelaire

“There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one…

— youssef

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

— Fulton J. Sheen

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

— Sam Manekshaw

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

— Frank Loesser

There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate…

— Tamara Mellon

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will…

— Swami Vivekananda

Full disclosure, Jon Jones is someone that I emulate as a fighter. I think he's one of the most complete fighters in…

— Greg Hardy

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and…

— Elvis Costello

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail…

— Henry David Thoreau

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an…

— Marlon Wayans

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the…

— Robert Jordan

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money,…

— Charles Lamb

“Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two…

— Wendy Cope

Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The…

— Dave Barry

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial…

— Alan Brien

I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is…

— Charles Spurgeon

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent…

— Dale Jamieson

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a…

— Bobby Sands

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

— H. L. Mencken

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

— Marcus Aurelius

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

— Anonymous

We just do not get the recognition or the opportunity to play against these men, so obviously you don't see it that…

— Fallon Sherrock

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

— Terry Pratchett

It's important for me to make sure that the men see and recognize that that woman is their equal.

— Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

— William Bernbach

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

— John Updike

If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

— Immanuel Kant

Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.

— Don Frye

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

— Walter E. Williams

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

— Dean Koontz

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

— Hank Williams, Jr

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men…

— John Edgar Wideman

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

— Petronius