Men Quotes

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

Nora Roberts

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

Tony Benn

Life is each human being's workshop. If a man survives a lifetime with his creative capacities intact, he has done his part to make a better world for all men.

Paul Rosenfels

Whoever won the wars in heavens, He is The God of men today.

Toba Beta

What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

Pope John Paul II

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois, the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone, that is to say the literary men, who are the people, or to say it better: the tradition of humanity.

Gustave Flaubert

If you speak or write truth about powerful men, they become your enemies.

Matthew Paris

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Kevyn Aucoin

There have been those who magnificently dared. There have been bearers of the truth, men who groped in the world's tumult, trying to make plain order of it. They discover what we did not yet know; chiefly they discover what we no longer knew.

Henri Barbusse

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

Horace Bushnell

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.

Baron d'Holbach

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Jose Marti

O, she walked unaware of her own increasing beauty That was holding men's thoughts from market or plough

Patrick MacDonogh

Now, these men weren't idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.

Alfred Bester

...the true disciple of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood by other men; they do not perceive that he is ever pursuing death and dying; and if this is true, why, having had the desire of death all his life long, should he repine at that which he has always been pursuing and desiring?

Socrates

I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch, A blind man battering blind men; Or into that most fecund ditch of all, The folly that man does Or must suffer, if he woos A proud woman not kindred of his soul.

William Butler Yeats

What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

Friedrich Hölderlin

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

Ronnie James Dio

The truth is that the public has done one of those startling and amazing things that they do about once in a hundred years. They've seized an idea. What is it? That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

F. Scott Fitzgerald