Men Quotes · Page 1,107

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

— George Bernard Shaw

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

— Michel Foucault

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

— Kola Boof

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

— Euripides

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.

— Stephen Hunt

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

— Martin Luther King, Jr

After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat.…

— Charles B. Rangel

Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room…

— J. K. Rowling

so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows…

— Anne Roe

The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility,…

— Laura Bates

Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with…

— Linda Sunshine

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who…

— Leonardo da Vinci

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized…

— Erwin Chargaff

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against…

— Henry VIII of England

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with…

— Samuel Johnson

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very…

— Lord Byron

Jenks laughed, taking to the air and saying, “Give it up, FIB man. It’ll take more than you to get her out.…

— Kim Harrison

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or…

— Ben H. Winters

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names…

— Anonymous

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I usually get called misogynistic, usually by women, and what do they know? They're not even men.

— Omid Djalili

You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'

— Jay R. Ferguson

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

— Zhuangzi

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

— Michael Shaara

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing…

— Barnabe Barnes

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

— Albert Camus

The unrelieved company of women can be a little wearing at times. And, to be brutally honest, men are often a lot…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

— Paul Valery

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

— Cesare Lombroso

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

— Immanuel Kant

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

— Leo Tolstoy

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

— Baruch Spinoza

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

— Karen Bass

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

— Horace