Men Quotes · Page 1,045

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

— Leo Durocher

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

— James A. Garfield

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.

— Molly Bloom

I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.

— Mae West

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

— Anonymous

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

— Luigi Pirandello

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

— Plato

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise…

— Woody Hayes

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value…

— Maria Montessori

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…

— Wendell Berry

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed…

— George Washington

He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .…

— John Dryden

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest…

— Richard M. Nixon

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy…

— Bill Moyers

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines…

— Robin Hobb

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy…

— Theodore Roosevelt

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

— Chinua Achebe

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

— Henry Fielding

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

— Ivan Krylov

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

— Mark Twain

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

— Gilbert Highet

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

— Lisa Kleypas

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

— Woodrow Wilson

One reason whites, men, and Christians are so hated by the elitist establishment is that they tend to be conservative.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

— Francois Mauriac

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

— William Barclay