Men Quotes

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

~ Quintus Ennius

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

~ W. H. Davies

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

~ George William Norris

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

~ Havelock Ellis

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

~ Max Beerbohm

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

~ Alexei Navalny

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

~ Agnes Smedley

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

~ Joseph Auslander

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

~ Isaiah Berlin

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

~ Pope Francis

The most positive men are the most credulous.

~ Alexander Pope

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

~ Tim Allen

My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

~ Iman

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

~ William Cowper

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

~ Ben Shapiro

Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

~ Alex Tizon

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

~ John Eldredge

I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.

~ Hugh Jackman

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

~ Monica Bellucci

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

~ Susanne Bier

Movies portray men as tough guys.

~ Geoffrey Canada

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.

~ Joseph Abboud

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

~ Bill Paxton

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

~ Henry Steele Commager

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

~ Alexander Hamilton

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

~ John Buford

Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America.

~ Jeff Denham

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

~ Fidel Castro

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

~ John Muir

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

~ Selma Blair

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

~ Isaac Newton

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

~ William Shakespeare

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.

~ Norman Davies

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

~ Tariq Ramadan

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

~ Heinrich Heine

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

~ Marie De France

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

~ Herodotus