Men Quotations | Page 4

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

It wasnt the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let's make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities.

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.