Men Quotes · Page 1,239

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

— William Hazlitt

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

— Ferdowsi

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

— Ivan Panin

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

— Masataka Taketsuru

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

— Walter Cronkite

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

— Charles Dickens

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a…

— Theophrastus

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

— Eric Sevareid

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury…

— Frederick Soddy

It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a…

— Philip Connors

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are…

— John Updike

Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to…

— James Cash Penney

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean…

— William Mathews

My reputation is so overblown. I can count the number of men I've been with on two hands; it just seems like…

— Bebe Buell

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.…

— H. G. Wells

I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her…

— John Climacus

They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him…

— Tom Stoppard

Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is…

— Werner Herzog

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works…

— Arthur Eddington

When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines…

— Ernest Becker

It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,…

— Julian Huxley

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem…

— Arthur Lydiard

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.…

— Werner Herzog

Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion…

— Wernher von Braun

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

— Thomas Haden Church

[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it.

— Gretl Braun

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

— John Locke

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

— Sally Stanford

Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains...

— Theodore Roosevelt

The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.

— John D. Rockefeller

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

— Mary Astell

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

— Joan Rivers

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

— Thomas Hobbes

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

— Amelia Barr

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

— Mae West

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

— Bruno of Cologne

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

— Phyllis Schlafly

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

— R. C. Sherriff

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero