Quotes on Men

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Difficulty shows what men are.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.