Men Quotes · Page 696

Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.

— David Icke

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

— Roger L'Estrange

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

— Anonymous

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

— Otto von Bismarck

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

— Paul Frank Baer

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

— Oliver D. Crisp

June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

— Barbara Billingsley

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

— William Safire

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with…

— George MacDonald

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going…

— Joss Whedon

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative,…

— Jeremy Taylor

Dear California Weather, Why are u pmsing on us today? We Californians dont like to be burnt to death… or to be…

— Janelle J

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress…

— Henry David Thoreau

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get…

— George H. W. Bush

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and…

— Shelley Berman

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch…

— Henry Timrod

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or…

— Thomas Carlyle

The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities…

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all…

— Rajneesh

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh;…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,…

— John Locke

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

— Mark Twain

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

— Jose Marti

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

— E. O. Wilson

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it.

— Mauro Ranallo

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

— Thomas Reed

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

— Saint Augustine

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

— Bernard Manning

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

— William R. Bradford

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

— Anonymous

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

— Kevin Smith

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this…

— Anonymous

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

— P. G. Wodehouse

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

— Jacob Braude

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the…

— Daley Thompson