Men Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

— Hunter S. Thompson

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

— Hunter S. Thompson

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

— Hunter S. Thompson

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

— Hunter S. Thompson

You took too much man, too much, too much.

— Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

— Hunter S. Thompson

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

— Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

— Hunter S. Thompson

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

— Hunter S. Thompson

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

— Hunter S. Thompson

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when *it* thinks you're ready.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his…

— Hunter S. Thompson

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me…

— Hunter S. Thompson

It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved…

— Hunter S. Thompson

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing…

— Hunter S. Thompson

A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever…

— Hunter S. Thompson

No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every…

— Hunter S. Thompson

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm…

— Hunter S. Thompson