Men Quotations

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

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

I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have very high expectations for Obama, and I am extremely hopeful that he will bring great lasting change not just to America, but to the entire world.

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.