Men Quotes · Page 774

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

— Herbert Spencer

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

— Henri Rousseau

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

— Alexandre Dumas

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

— John Carroll

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

— Maximilien Robespierre

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

— Anonymous

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the…

— Joseph Campbell

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging;…

— John Dryden

In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a…

— Francis Quarles

It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but…

— Martin Luther

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to…

— Thomas Jefferson

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put…

— Laurie Anderson

In this industry, people want a 'yes sir' attitude. But ad men usually have a chip on their shoulders. We have more…

— Vivek Agnihotri

I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right…

— Jane Green

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or…

— Edward Hoagland

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such…

— Francis Bacon

While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse…

— Huey Morgan

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a…

— Emma Goldman

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier…

— Ray Bradbury

Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good…

— John C. Wright

The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that…

— Toni Morrison

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce…

— Josh Billings

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

— Honore de Balzac

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

— William Blake

If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

— Pierre Dukan

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

— Napoleon Hill

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?

— Samuel Hoffenstein

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

— Sophocles

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

— Peter Grimwade

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

— Elbert Hubbard

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

— Judd Nelson

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

— Rick Yancey

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

— Anonymous

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

— Rowan Atkinson