Men Quotes · Page 697

“To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

— David Sarnoff

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

— Ian Mckellen

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

— John Updike

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

— Henrik Ibsen

Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, but being a gentlemen is a matter…

— Anonymous

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and…

— Andrew Weil

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast…

— Kim Longinotto

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job…

— Adrian Rogers

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also…

— Chief Seattle

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies…

— Jane Campion

We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given…

— Vera Rubin

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I…

— Marcus Aurelius

I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks…

— Swami Vivekananda

When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.…

— Ramakrishna

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual…

— Henry Ward Beecher

God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,…

— Martin Luther

I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a…

— Harry Houdini

Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man…

— Anonymous

Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that…

— Amy Sedaris

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

— Honore de Balzac

My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.

— Wissam Al Mana

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

— Pope John Paul II

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

— George Santayana

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

— Chris Evert

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

— Luc de Clapiers

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

— Robertson Davies

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

— J. D. Salinger

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

— Soren Kierkegaard

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

— Andre Ward

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

— Wendell Berry

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to…

— D. H. Lawrence

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

— Hermann Hesse