Men Quotes · Page 787

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

— William Shakespeare

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

— Iris Murdoch

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

— Christian Louboutin

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

— Adrian Rogers

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

— Chris Rock

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

— James Brown

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the…

— Daniel Goleman

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he…

— John F. Kennedy

When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does…

— Augustus William Hare

There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right…

— Ntozake Shange

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly;…

— Juliette Adam

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old…

— John Owen

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one.…

— James Bryant Conant

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real…

— Herbert Read

The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"…

— George Weigel

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a…

— Charles Perrault

An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means…

— Ayn Rand

The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions…

— Ray V. Pierce

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was…

— George Mason

The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

— V. S. Naipaul

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

— Seneca the Younger

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

— Thomas a Kempis

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

— Charlton Laird

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

— Henri Rousseau

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

— W. C. Fields

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

— Homer

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

— Epictetus

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

— Perry Brass

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

— Narciso Yepes

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

— Charles Caleb Colton