Men Quotes · Page 960

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

— Henry David Thoreau

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

— Oriana Fallaci

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?”

— Gary Shteyngart

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

— Leo Tolstoy

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

— Susan J. Ellis

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

— Wendelin Van Draanen

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because…

— Aristotle

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it…

— Gregory Maguire

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do…

— Abraham Lincoln

Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there…

— Mike Huckabee

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst…

— Marcus Aurelius

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great…

— Brad Pitt

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that…

— Anonymous

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past…

— John Dewey

God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've…

— Edgar Guest

For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to…

— Zooey Deschanel

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all…

— Guy de Maupassant

There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that…

— Edward Dahlberg

For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used…

— Andy Andrews

Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things,…

— Wilford Woodruff

I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

— William Chillingworth

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

— Stephen King

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

— Thomas A. Edison

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

— Vilfredo Pareto

Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please…

— Lee Nichols

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

— Charles Evans Hughes

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

— Paulo Coelho

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

— Andre Malraux

My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of…

— Don Rickles

I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

— Anonymous

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

— Jocelyn Murray

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

— Marilyn vos Savant

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making…

— Malcolm X

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

— William Cowper