Men Quotes · Page 561

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

— Mencius

It’s better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men.

— Silvio Berlusconi

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in…

— Bill Oberst Jr

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

— Richard Whately

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the…

— Oswald J. Smith

The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched…

— Juliet Marillier

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss…

— Fridtjof Nansen

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who…

— Larry Gelwix

Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in…

— Mark Hopkins

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process,…

— Abraham Lincoln

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be…

— Pearl S. Buck

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal…

— Alice Duer Miller

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in…

— Benjamin Franklin

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des…

— Charles de Gaulle

Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own…

— Barbara Deming

I know some women's rights activists have seen so much abuse that they can't stand men, but I have a sense of…

— Deeyah Khan

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the…

— Richard Holt Hutton

But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,…

— Joan Didion

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

— Confucius

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

— Mencius

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

— Francis Bacon

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

— Samuel Johnson

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

— Honore de Balzac

Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse.

— Isaiah Mustafa

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on…

— William Butler Yeats

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not…

— Henry Ford

Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.

— Anwar Sadat

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

— Woodrow Wilson

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

— Walter Lippmann

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

— Douglas Adams

Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.

— Anonymous

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they…

— Ryan Gosling