Men Quotes · Page 676

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

— Livy

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

— Chris O'Dowd

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

— Richard Brautigan

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

— William Blake

Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

— Mike Rowe

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

— Xzibit

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

— Henri Bergson

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child…

— H. L. Mencken

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been…

— Henry L. Stimson

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some…

— Leonard Hayflick

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been…

— Warren Farrell

“Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if…

— Andrew Lang

Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also,…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of…

— Robertson Davies

This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and…

— Anonymous

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal…

— Erich Fromm

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and…

— G. H. Hardy

A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow…

— John McCain

I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me…

— Peter Dinklage

I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in…

— Charles Bukowski

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

— Washington Irving

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

— Henry David Thoreau

A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

— Courtney Milan

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

— Anonymous

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

— Confucius

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

— Jonathan Swift

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

— Anonymous

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

— Anonymous

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

— Merrill Markoe

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance…

— Dan O'Brien

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

— George Bernard Shaw