Men Quotes

A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him

Thomas Carlyle

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Mike Tyson

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Gertrude Stein

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Quentin Crisp

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

C. S. Lewis

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Napoleon Hill

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Karl Marx

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Confucius

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

H. L. Mencken

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Thomas Jefferson

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Dalai Lama

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine