Men Quotes · Page 1,187

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to…

— D. H. Lawrence

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

— Wendell Berry

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

— Hermann Hesse

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

— George Santayana

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

— Chris Evert

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

— Luc de Clapiers

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the…

— George Santayana

I wonder who really is the change candidate? It can't be both of them [Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama]. What would be…

— Jon Stewart

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything…

— John Steinbeck

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to…

— Jane Austen

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and…

— William Faulkner

The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals,…

— Charles Darwin

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I…

— John Wesley

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and…

— Anonymous

As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption…

— Thomas Boston

I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted…

— Emilia Lanier

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest,…

— Luther Burbank

I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

I've had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they'd dated the men they dated before they picked up their…

— Bebe Buell

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

— Pope John Paul II

My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.

— Wissam Al Mana

Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, but being a gentlemen is a matter…

— Anonymous

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

— Honore de Balzac

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

— J. D. Salinger

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

— Robertson Davies

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

— Soren Kierkegaard

I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

— Andre Ward

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

— P. G. Wodehouse

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this…

— Anonymous

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

— Jacob Braude

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the…

— Daley Thompson

“To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

— Henrik Ibsen

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe