Men Quotes · Page 1,235

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

— Thomas Jefferson

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

— Ivan Krylov

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

— Mark Twain

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

— Woodrow Wilson

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

— Gilbert Highet

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

— Lisa Kleypas

One reason whites, men, and Christians are so hated by the elitist establishment is that they tend to be conservative.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

— Charles Bukowski

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts…

— George Eliot

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see…

— Louise Erdrich

You have pretty much the same fan base in Memphis, year over year the same group. We watched teenagers in the stands…

— Marc Gasol

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never…

— Randolph Bourne

I admire woman like Marissa Mayer, the first female engineer and then CEO of Yahoo. Women who don't only strive to be…

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm…

— Bennett Cerf

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the…

— T. S. Eliot

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation?…

— Anonymous

The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with…

— Charlotte Mason

When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath…

— Thomas S. Monson

...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and…

— John Cheever

There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields,…

— Alan Paton

Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic…

— Stella Benson

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing,…

— J. L. Austin

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

— Carlos Castaneda

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

— Rush Limbaugh

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

— Chris Murray

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

— C. S. Lewis

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

— Max Stirner

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

— Anonymous

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your…

— Sean Connery

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

— Rama Swami

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his…

— John Milton

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

— Ben Shahn

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

— Plato

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham