Top 1000 Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.