Men Quotes · Page 547

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

— Washington Irving

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

— Ayn Rand

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

— Sidney Poitier

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

— Naomi Wolf

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

— Marilyn Monroe

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

— Bill Maher

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

— Plato

A woman [shouldn't] have to give a man her body to get his heart.

— Tony Gaskins

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live…

— Patrick Ness

I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile…

— Mickey Cohen

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is…

— Thom Yorke

By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage,…

— Gena Showalter

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names…

— Paul de Man

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material…

— Matisyahu

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look…

— James Gould Cozzens

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in…

— H. G. Wells

It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark…

— Ezra Taft Benson

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years…

— Mary Mapes Dodge

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he…

— Max Stirner

All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances…

— William Batchelder Greene

Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts,…

— Indira Gandhi

You sleep with a man, that's your husband. So make sure before you lay down, you love him.

— Anonymous

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

— Warren Farrell

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

— NeNe Leakes

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

— George S. Patton

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

— Benjamin Franklin

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

— Jacques Ellul

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

— Plautus

Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.

— Paul Washer

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

— Lady Gregory

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

— Patrice O'Neal

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

— Carl Jung

Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

— J. G. Holland

Sometimes people don't realise just how hard it is to play with 10 men in the Premier League.

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

— Homer

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of…

— Lorraine Hansberry