Men Quotes · Page 584

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

— Marilyn Monroe

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

— Pope John Paul II

No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.

— Mr Hudson

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

— W. Somerset Maugham

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state…

— Meridel Le Sueur

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

— Rex Stout

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

— Sam Heughan

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but…

— Charles Dickens

The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. …The liberation woman is a person who believes…

— Ghada al-Samman

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we…

— Confucius

Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She…

— Georgette Heyer

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a…

— Derek Landy

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of…

— George S. Patton

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover…

— Samuel Richardson

He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out…

— Jim Butcher

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man…

— Cornelius Van Til

Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself…

— Samuel Smiles

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles'…

— Homer

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe…

— C. S. Lewis

We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled…

— John Ruskin

In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also…

— Donna J. Haraway

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

— Alvin Dark

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

— Kris Allen

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

— Edward Young

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

— Dwight L. Moody

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

— Anthony J. Carson

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare…

— George Herbert

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

— Octavio Paz

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

— Oscar Wilde

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it's really important to acknowledge that gay men and straight men can be friends.

— Courtney Act

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

— Nolan Bushnell