Men Quotes · Page 1,020

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

— Luther Burbank

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

— Chauncey Wright

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

— Charles Spurgeon

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

— Ron Dart

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

— William Booth

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.

— Peter Drucker

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.…

— Learned Hand

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid…

— William E. Gladstone

In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of…

— Charles Lamb

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This…

— Florence Nightingale

Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf…

— Libba Bray

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long…

— Ramakrishna

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness…

— Helen Keller

My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it,…

— Chris Rock

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to…

— Karin Slaughter

Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is…

— Brennan Manning

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall…

— Plato

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony…

— Marshall McLuhan

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women…

— Tana French

There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is…

— John Ray

To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese…

— Stephen Ambrose

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

— Paullina Simons

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

— Alice Cary

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that…

— Thomas Aquinas

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

— Anonymous

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

— Clarence Darrow

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

— Criss Jami

I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party

— Bruce Willis

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

— Lisa Kleypas

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

— Alexander Wilson

I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

— Annie Oakley

We never really learn from the first mistake, or the second or the third. It only hits us men when we're given…

— Anonymous

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

— Samuel Johnson