Men Quotes · Page 1,096

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

— John Hobbes

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

— Inge Lehmann

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

— Luther Standing Bear

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

— Samuel Johnson

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

— Francis Bacon

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal…

— Victor Hugo

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

— Brian Herbert

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I…

— Barbara Corcoran

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not…

— Thomas Brooks

All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and…

— George Mason

Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to…

— Heinrich Himmler

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that…

— James Bryant Conant

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that…

— Patrick Ness

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human…

— James Branch Cabell

Because I work with entrepreneurs who own businesses, I have found Doug Tatum's No Man's Land to be a really helpful body…

— Lewis Schiff

Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the…

— William Shakespeare

In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the…

— Samuel Adams

Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby…

— Thomas Szasz

I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices,…

— Sitting Bull

The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law…

— Lysander Spooner

Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had…

— Cassandra Clare

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard…

— Flannery O'Connor

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

— Robert Herrick

I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many…

— William Goldman

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

— Robert Herrick

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

— Leslie Mann

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

— Sia Furler

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

— Arnold Bennett

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

— Flip Wilson

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

— Willie Stargell

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

— Nikki Sixx

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

— Ivan Panin

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

— Jill Soloway

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

— Ernest Becker