Men - Quotes & Sayings

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

Noel Gallagher

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Harry Nilsson

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

Christina Hendricks

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

Chris Rock

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Cher

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Samuel Smiles

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

Chrissie Hynde

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Daniel Webster

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Blaise Pascal

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Camille Paglia

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Heinrich Heine

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Edwin Louis Cole

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

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

Harry Day

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Alexander Hamilton

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Buddha

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Blaise Pascal

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

William Shakespeare

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

Donatella Versace

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Gary Lineker

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Abraham Lincoln

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. White

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Fidel Castro

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Aristotle

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Rita Rudner

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

James Harrington

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Henry David Thoreau

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Henry David Thoreau

When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Randy Pausch

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Ty Cobb

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Florynce Kennedy

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.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington