Men Quotes · Page 1,175

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

— Joshua Reynolds

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

— Pope Francis

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

— Max Lucado

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even…

— BeBe Zahara Benet

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision…

— Black Elk

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

— Thomas Fuller

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is…

— Horace

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country…

— William Randolph Hearst

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he…

— Catherine Camus

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then…

— Brian Tracy

You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to…

— Zoey Dean

Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' '…

— David Gemmell

A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed…

— Gene Wolfe

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is…

— Harold Laski

Meliorn?” said Clary. “I’ve met you, haven’t I? You used to go out with Isabelle Lightwood.” Meliorn was almost expressionless, but Clary…

— Cassandra Clare

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing…

— Abraham Lincoln

I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put…

— Michael K. Williams

By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of…

— Cato the Younger

You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell…

— Epictetus

Asian men are the sexiest. They got no body hair from the neck down.

— Ali Wong

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't…

— Brent Weeks

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

— Black Elk

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

— Jean Toomer

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend…

— Thomas Hobbes

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

— Horace

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people…

— Kevin Smith

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

— James F. Cooper

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is…

— Hugh Nibley

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

— Epictetus

“I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail”

— Rose Pressey

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

— Andrea Dworkin

An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future.

— F. Ross Johnson