Men Quotes · Page 2,065

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

— Karen Marie Moning

The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and…

— Gertrude Stein

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will…

— Sam Keen

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

— Honore de Balzac

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

— Harry Belafonte

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement…

— June Jordan

My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying,…

— Georges Laraque

Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.

— Katie Louchheim

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

— Maira Kalman

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

— Alexander Smith

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

— Tertullian

Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could…

— Grace Paley

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it…

— O. Henry

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a…

— John Taylor Gatto

In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.

— Martin Van Buren

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

— Andrew Ryan

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds…

— Mark Twain

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to…

— Anonymous

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a…

— Pearl Cleage

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man…

— Mike Mentzer

Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they…

— Marya Hornbacher

But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and…

— Sargent Shriver

What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

— Erwin Rommel

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to…

— Thomas Hobbes

In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in…

— Thomas Aquinas

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown…

— Anonymous

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them

— Henry David Thoreau

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

— Rudyard Kipling

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

— Euripides

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

— Jerome Cady

Pakistani men are great-looking. Now I know where all the good looking men in the sub-continent are hiding!

— Urmila Matondkar

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The campaign is over. The people have spoken. And this man [Donald Trump] busted through a blue wall that nobody expected. He…

— Kellyanne Conway

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass…

— Erasmus Darwin