Men Quotes · Page 965

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

— John Muir

Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman

— Ilona Andrews

If all girls turn strong within themselves, men with bad intentions can be taught apt lessons.

— Geeta Phogat

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

— Ivan Illich

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world

— Arjun Rampal

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

— William Penn

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

— Democritus

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past,…

— Albert Claude

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are…

— Evagrius Ponticus

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured…

— Thales

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread.…

— Edna Ferber

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here,…

— Anonymous

Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion.…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine…

— John Calvin

Being compared to that man [Michael Jordan], who has accomplished so much in his lifetime and is known as one of the…

— Michael B. Jordan

Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man…

— George Will

Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less…

— Hannah Arendt

Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But…

— Richard L. Evans

I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging…

— Jean Dubuffet

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the…

— Hal Borland

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love…

— George Eliot

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

— Chidananda Saraswati

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them

— Epictetus

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

— Brendan Fraser

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

— Walter Rodney

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

— Zhuangzi

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

— James Russell Lowell

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

— John Locke

Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.

— Bette Midler

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand…

— David Bowie

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

— Gloria Steinem

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

— John Lennon

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

— Plutarch

I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.

— Sid Luckman

Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

— Mae West

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

— Jessica Valenti