Men Quotes · Page 1,079

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

— Anonymous

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

— Herbert Spencer

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

— Lois Wyse

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

— Henri Rousseau

Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?

— Samuel Hoffenstein

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being…

— Laurence Sterne

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,…

— Aeschylus

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field.…

— Henry Villard

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and…

— Chanakya

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest.…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit…

— Angie Dickinson

Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but…

— Robert Griffin III

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of…

— H. L. Mencken

A little man is running a jewelry store. A man runs in saying, Okay, take my watch, put on a new band,…

— Henny Youngman

It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list…

— Howard Pyle

It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good…

— Jay Gould

There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise…

— Louis Pasteur

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Come work for me, and I’ll tell you.” My eyes went to his. “You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and…

— Kim Harrison

I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first…

— Carson McCullers

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man…

— Alexandre Dumas

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

— Napoleon Hill

If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

— Pierre Dukan

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

— Peter Grimwade

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

— Sophocles

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

— Honore de Balzac

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce…

— Josh Billings

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

— William Blake

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

— Elbert Hubbard

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

— Judd Nelson

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

— Anais Nin

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing…

— William Saroyan

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

— Kate Millett

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

— Anonymous