Quotes on Men

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.