Men Quotes · Page 545

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

— Anonymous

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

— Bertrand Russell

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.

— J. Edgar Hoover

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

— Herb Goldberg

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

— Rudyard Kipling

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”

— William Golding

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night,…

— Nate

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is…

— John F. Kennedy

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is…

— Lord Byron

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those…

— John Selden

Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as…

— Albert Camus

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories…

— Danae Elon

I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are…

— Brigid Brophy

Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed…

— Thomas Jefferson

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,…

— Arthur Helps

The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship…

— William Barclay

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call…

— John F. Kennedy

When women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports.…

— Sheila Kelley

In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same…

— Anne Rice

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heels are a male invention designed to make a woman's butt look smaller, and to make it harder for them to run…

— Amanda Bynes

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

— Rachel Carson

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

— Marilyn French

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

— Anonymous

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

— Lord Jamar

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in…

— Cheryl Strayed

Gay men must be more effective caregivers to the women in their lives.

— Karamo Brown

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

— J. G. Holland

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

— Benjamin Franklin

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

— W. S. Gilbert

You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.

— Adrian Rogers

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

— John Wyndham

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

— Sammy Davis, Jr