Top 1200 Few Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

It is shameful that there are so few women in science. [...] In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to London in July of 2010 and before I went I had a few men lined up to meet, two who made a large impact on me. Both were mentioned in "Adrien Brody."

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those.

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I thank God there are a few men left in this nation who have the backbone to tell it like it is.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

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

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

Few big men have possessed the rare combination of power, speed and agility of Shaq.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.