Quotes on Men

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.