Men Quotes · Page 574

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

— Phyllis Bottome

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

— Emile M. Cioran

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

— H. L. Mencken

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.

— Julia Quinn

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

— Diogenes Laertius

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

— Anonymous

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things…

— Che Guevara

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to…

— David Hume

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies,…

— Johann Arndt

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course…

— Abraham Lincoln

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation…

— James Lane Allen

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they…

— Herman Melville

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a…

— Spartacus

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying…

— Linda Ellerbee

Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate…

— Anonymous

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled…

— Arthur Koestler

Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between…

— Robert Stuart MacArthur

This is the United spirit: you can play everywhere. If you want to win, you have to accept it. You can see…

— Patrice Evra

Rain Man certainly didn't test really well. If you look at it carefully, you have a disease autism they didn't understand back…

— Barry Levinson

Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it…

— Joost Meerloo

“Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,…

— Henry David Thoreau

You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers…

— Brad Stine

See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

— Mariah Carey

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

— Cyril Connolly

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

— Henry David Thoreau

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

— Billie Jean King

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

— Henry James

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

— Harold Brodkey

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

— Aeschylus

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

— Karl Kraus

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

— Philip Pullman

All the news articles focus on how I look. They certainly don't do that to men.

— Scarlett Moffatt

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought…

— Ambrose Bierce

You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than…

— Lady Gaga

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

— Leland Stanford