Men Quotes

"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."

"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."

"My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity."

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible."

"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."

"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known."

"God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell."

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

"Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care."

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."

"I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story."

"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

"What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?"

"In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them."

"I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous."

"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals."

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."

"Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men."

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."

"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."

"Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form."

"No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition."

"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."

"When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation."

"We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together."

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

"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing."

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

"We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us."

"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot."

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men."

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way."

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

"Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve."

"The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."

"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."

"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."

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

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."