Men Quotes · Page 961

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

— Abraham Lincoln

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

— Kobe Bryant

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

— Kate Langley Bosher

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

— Leo Tolstoy

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

— Margaret Mitchell

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And…

— Lewis Carroll

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a…

— Dagmar Godowsky

At the end of the day, makeup comes off whether you're a man or a woman; why discriminate against men, when makeup…

— Manny MUA

Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The…

— Boyd K. Packer

Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual…

— Thomas Paine

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this…

— Claude Bernard

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying,…

— John Quincy Adams

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of…

— Alexander Stoddart

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be…

— Thomas Jefferson

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can…

— Herbert Hoover

Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be…

— Clive Barker

Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so…

— Robert Jordan

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any…

— Isabella Bird

In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the…

— Sam Rayburn

The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices…

— Jim Tully

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

— Tom Standage

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

— Marcus Aurelius

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

— Margaret Oliphant

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

— Will Rogers

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they…

— Mencius

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

— Anonymous

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

— Tallulah Bankhead

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

— Sigmund Freud

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but…

— William Shakespeare

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

— Sharon Shinn

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

— Malcolm X

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

— Charles Fillmore

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

— Stephen Lang

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

— Christopher Walken