Men Quotes · Page 1,074

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

— Patrick Stewart

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.

— Edward Norris Kirk

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

— George Canning

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator…

— Thomas Hobbes

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

— William Hazlitt

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

— Larry McMurtry

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of…

— Jim Elliot

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal,…

— J. K. Bharavi

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something…

— John Chamberlain

All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with…

— Rita Rudner

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he…

— Richard G. Scott

Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible…

— James Thurber

Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The…

— Simon Newcomb

It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a…

— David Kirschner

And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with…

— Rachel Held Evans

Your Olympic Hero is scheduled to wrestle a match against the man they call the big red retard; not that I have…

— Kurt Angle

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering,…

— Tom Hanks

Something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person…

— Paulo Coelho

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

— Jerry Pournelle

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

— Robert E. Terwilliger

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

— Mark Twain

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

— Erich Fromm

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

— Sri Aurobindo

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

— Hillary Clinton

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

— Oscar Wilde

Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

— Tacitus

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

— Clifton Fadiman

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

— Chris Borland

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

— Gavin de Becker

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

— David Clement-Davies

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

— Margaret Atwood