Men Quotes · Page 1,101

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

— Henry David Thoreau

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.

— Marilu Henner

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

— Aeschylus

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.

— Caroline Winberg

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

— Samuel Johnson

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

— John Steinbeck

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala,…

— Jerry Hall

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized…

— W. H. Auden

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they…

— William Wycherley

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a…

— Billy Connolly

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure…

— Peter Kropotkin

The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The…

— Wilferd Peterson

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers…

— Daniel Boone

Don't tell me to leave-you leave. If Obama, if Clinton, if Mittens Romney, if Rick Santorum, if Neutered Gingrich, if Herman '999…

— Gerald Celente

Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the…

— Anonymous

In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons,…

— Eldridge Cleaver

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass…

— Thomas Hardy

Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves…

— Richard M. Nixon

If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted…

— Charles Horton Cooley

No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

— Ilya Kaminsky

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

— Anonymous

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who…

— Henry Ford

I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?

— Phyllis Diller

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

— Mark Twain

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can…

— Aristophanes

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

— Irenaeus of Lyons

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

— Esperanza Spalding

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

— Kenneth Waltz

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

— Edward Young

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

— Ricky Martin

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

— Thomas Jefferson

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

— Albert Howard