Men Quotes · Page 858

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

— Linus Torvalds

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

— Anatole France

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

— Chester Himes

When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.

— Susan Ford

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man…

— Malcolm X

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

— Matthew Henry

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood…

— Felix Adler

What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the…

— Irving Kaufman

Men are often miserable in relationships because they feel their partner takes them for granted, or shows him no appreciation for the…

— Matthew Hussey

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been…

— Oliver Goldsmith

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of…

— D. Elton Trueblood

but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange…

— Nicholas Sparks

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,…

— John Stuart Mill

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.…

— B. C. Forbes

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would…

— Benjamin Franklin

There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose.…

— Vikram Sarabhai

The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…

— Baruch Spinoza

There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious…

— Leslie Fiedler

“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men…They sit back…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to…

— H. L. Mencken

I think we roll our eyes at older men with younger women and go, 'Oh, he's going through a midlife crisis and…

— Robin Wright

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

— Stanley Kubrick

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

— Thomas Pynchon

I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

— Sean Price

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy…

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

— Giacomo Casanova

The girl has to be, you know, "the man," who is going to take care of everybody.

— Jenova Chen

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

— George Jean Nathan

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with…

— Julius Caesar

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil,…

— David Clement-Davies

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

— E. M. Forster

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become…

— Jürgen Moltmann

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

— Andre Maurois