Men Quotes · Page 1,060

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

— Thomas Merton

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

— Francis Bacon

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

— Anonymous

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

— James Cash Penney

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

— Larry McMurtry

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

— Krafft Arnold Ehricke

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

— Lorraine Hansberry

I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.

— Franz Oppenheimer

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted…

— Robert Shaw

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented:…

— Harriet Tubman

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of…

— Kingsley Amis

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For…

— C. S. Lewis

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men.…

— Ingrid Michaelson

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as…

— Thomas Aquinas

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps…

— Jerome K. Jerome

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be…

— Annie Lennox

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,…

— Arthur Helps

The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship…

— William Barclay

In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same…

— Anne Rice

When women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports.…

— Sheila Kelley

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call…

— John F. Kennedy

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

— Zoroaster

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my…

— Mark Wahlberg

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

— Winston Churchill

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take…

— Abraham Lincoln

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

— Margaret Atwood

No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

— Vance Havner

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

— Peter Kreeft

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

— Hosea Ballou

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

— Joseph Alsop

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

— Paul Tudor Jones

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

— Angelus Silesius

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

— William Least Heat-Moon

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe…

— Francis Crick

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

— Emma Goldman