Men Quotes · Page 847

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

— William Shakespeare

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our…

— Samuel Richardson

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

— Plato

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be…

— Robert Southey

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

— John Barth

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

— John Dryden

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

— Warren Farrell

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

— Adam Driver

I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of…

— Seneca the Younger

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he…

— Henry Adams

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that…

— Aristotle

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable,…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built…

— George W. S. Trow

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we…

— Garth Brooks

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a…

— Oliver Sacks

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts,…

— Owen Feltham

He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?”…

— William Goldman

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created…

— John F. Kennedy

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had…

— Edward Said

Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it was over…

— Ted Page

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and…

— Flann O'Brien

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

— Anonymous

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

— Harry Anderson

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is,…

— Matthew Henry

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

— Hesiod

He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

— George Borodin

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

— Samuel Johnson

You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.

— Michael Moorer

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

— Karl Donitz

I miss corner men dressed up in the white cardigans, with sometimes the white hat they may have on.

— Daniel Jacobs

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions…

— Sally Kempton

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

— O. Winston Link

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

— Jacques Monod