Men - Quotes & Sayings

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Francis Bacon

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Donald Glover

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Maria Montessori

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Rebecca West

Men don't like eating out of cans. And I don't like eating out of cans too much, either.

Aretha Franklin

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in past battles - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

James Mattis

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

Robert Kennedy

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

bell hooks

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Francis of Assisi

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas J. Watson

Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.

Charles M. Schwab

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

Men have always been gentlemen to me - responsible people with healthy attitudes.

Aretha Franklin

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

Phil Donahue

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Chester A. Arthur

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Alexander Graham Bell

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

Jackie Kennedy

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

Christian Louboutin

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Bernard Shaw

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Herbert Hoover

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H. G. Wells

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Robert Plant

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Friedrich Schiller

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

B. R. Ambedkar

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Bill Murray

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurber

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Charles Spurgeon

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

Charles Spurgeon

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

Sarah Jessica Parker

One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

Sam Yagan

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

Lana Turner

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Paul Keating

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

Emilia Fox

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Dexter Gordon

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

Mae West