Men - Quotes & Sayings
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon BonaparteGreat occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss WestcottYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. RowlingThe tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
William BarclayReconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
W. E. B. Du BoisI dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene DietrichConservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
Gifford PinchotThe army teaches boys to think like men.
Elvis PresleyNo man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel AdamsWith fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
BuddhaMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. RooseveltEnvy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
Malcolm XThe 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.
John F. KennedyGold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham LincolnThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David ThoreauEven the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
Jonathan CarrollThe superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
ConfuciusMen do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel CastroWhen men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PlatoAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles DarwinI have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus AureliusThe less men think, the more they talk.
Charles de MontesquieuThere is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John LockeRepresentation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de BeauvoirYou can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
Ho Chi MinhThe belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph ConradThe 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.
J. R. R. TolkienThe Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.
Pope FrancisMan as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie ChaplinMen get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMedicine men live in caves.
Jean-Michel BasquiatFunny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
T. J. MillerThese are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.
Powell ClaytonI've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
J. B. PritzkerI've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf KarshMen lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Francis of AssisiWars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. PattonMen occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillIf any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn RandWe should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali JinnahFor evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Simon WiesenthalTo attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'
Rita RudnerMillions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel AdamsMen admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Benito MussoliniAll men are equal before fish.
Herbert HooverWhy should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?
Andy DunnLandlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl MarxSpace and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le CorbusierIt 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.
Julius Caesar