Quotes on Men

Grown men do not need leaders.

Author: Edward Abbey

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Author: Edward Abbey

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

Author: Ralph Abernathy

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

Author: Edmond About

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Author: F. Abraham

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

Author: F. Abraham

I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

Author: Victoria Abril

All of the men on my staff can type.

Author: Bella Abzug

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Author: Bella Abzug

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

Author: Kathy Acker

The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

Author: John Acton

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Author: Lord Acton

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Author: Ansel Adams

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Author: Ansel Adams

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

Author: Franklin Adams

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Author: Franklin Adams

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Author: Henry Adams

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Author: Henry Adams

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Author: Henry Adams

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.

Author: Herbert Adams

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Author: Jack Adams

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Author: John Adams

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Author: John Adams

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Author: Phillip Adams

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Author: Richard Adams

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Author: Samuel Adams

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Author: Jane Addams

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Author: Joseph Addison

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Author: Joseph Addison

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Author: Theodor Adorno

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Author: Aeschines

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Author: Aeschylus

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Author: Aeschylus

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Author: Aeschylus

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Author: Aesop

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Author: Aesop

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Author: Mark Akenside

Men can do all things if they will.

Author: Leon Alberti

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Author: Alcaeus

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Author: Louisa Alcott

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Author: Louisa Alcott

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Author: Louisa Alcott

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Author: Alcuin

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

Author: Thomas Aldrich

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Author: Archibald Alexander

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Author: Archibald Alexander

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Author: William Alger

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Author: William Alger

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Author: Wayne Allard

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.

Author: Fred Allen

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

Author: Fred Allen

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Author: Fred Allen

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Author: Fred Allen

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Author: Fred Allen

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

Author: George Allen

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

Author: James Allen

I think men are a beautiful creation.

Author: Krista Allen

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

Author: Roland Allen

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Author: Roland Allen

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Author: Tim Allen

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Author: Tim Allen

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Author: Kirstie Alley

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Author: Gloria Allred

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Author: Louis Althusser

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Author: Robert Altman

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Author: B. Ambedkar

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.

Author: John Amery

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

Author: John Amery

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

Author: John Amery

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Author: Anacharsis

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Author: Anaxagoras

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

Author: Maxwell Anderson

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

Author: Tadao Ando

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Author: Barbara Angelis

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Author: Barbara Angelis

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Author: Norman Angell

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Author: Maya Angelou

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Author: Kofi Annan

Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women.

Author: Francesca Annis

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Author: Jean Anouilh

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Author: Susan Anthony

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Author: Susan Anthony

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Author: Susan Anthony

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Author: Susan Anthony

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

Author: Elizabeth Arden

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Author: Aristophanes

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Author: Aristotle

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Author: Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Author: Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Author: Aristotle

Bad men are full of repentance.

Author: Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Author: Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Author: Aristotle

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Author: Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Author: Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Author: Aristotle

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Author: Neil Armstrong

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Author: Matthew Arnold

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Author: Thomas Arnold

Most men are not that evolved.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Author: Antonin Artaud

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Author: Antonin Artaud

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Author: Chester Arthur

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Author: Sholem Asch

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Author: Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

Author: Roger Ascham

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.

Author: Timothy Ash

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

Author: William Ashley

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.

Author: William Ashley

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

Author: William Ashley

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Author: Isaac Asimov

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Author: Isaac Asimov

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

Author: Jules Asner

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Author: Margot Asquith

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Author: Francis Assisi

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Author: Mary Astell

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

Author: Mary Astell

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Author: Mary Astell

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Author: Nancy Astor

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Author: Brooks Atkinson

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

Author: Richard Attenborough

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

Author: John Aubrey

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Author: W. Auden

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

Author: Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Author: Saint Augustine

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Author: Augustus

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

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

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Author: Sri Aurobindo

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Author: Joseph Auslander

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Author: Jane Austen

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Author: Mary Austin

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

Author: Alan Autry

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Author: Avicenna

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Author: Alan Ayckbourn