Men Quotes · Page 887

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

— Mark Twain

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

— Israel Zangwill

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

— Oliver Goldsmith

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

— David Hume

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

— Dorothy Day

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child…

— Anne Rice

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

— B. J. Palmer

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be…

— Naomi Watts

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man,…

— Samuel Adams

After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young…

— Maria V. Snyder

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking…

— Confucius

I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a…

— Megan Griffiths

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to…

— Edward Abbey

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he…

— Edward R. Murrow

I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber…

— Johnny Depp

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go…

— Terry Bradshaw

Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press…

— Cindy Sheehan

The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a…

— Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is…

— Anne Wilkes Tucker

One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all…

— Homer

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But…

— Mark Kurlansky

In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using…

— Sigurd F. Olson

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

— John Dos Passos

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

— Roger L'Estrange

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

— Christine Pelosi

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

— Baal Shem Tov

Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

— William Shakespeare

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

— William Shakespeare

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

— Chanakya

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I’m a woman in a man’s job and I don’t have the luxury of being an ass,

— Joan Clarke

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.

— Finley Peter Dunne

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

— H. G. Wells

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is…

— Aristotle

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

— Gerald R. Ford

Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.

— Keorapetse Kgositsile

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

— Samuel Johnson