Men Quotes

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

~ Charlotte Dujardin

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

~ Jim Bishop

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

~ Norman Cousins

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

~ Le Corbusier

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

~ Valentina Tereshkova

Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

~ Yi So-Yeon

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

~ Fred Allen

Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.

~ Fatema Mernissi

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

~ James Joyce

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

~ Martin Luther King

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.

~ Stanley A. Mcchrystal

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.

~ Jay Parini

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

~ Matisyahu

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

~ Wendy Cope

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

~ Charles Erwin Wilson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

~ James A. Baldwin

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

~ Margaret Fuller

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

~ David Bowie

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

~ José Martí

It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.

~ Evel Knievel

I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.

~ Jill Soloway

With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.

~ Erin O'connor

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

~ Paul Giamatti

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.

~ Hanna Rosin

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

~ Pericles

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

~ Samantha Mumba

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

~ William Shakespeare

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

~ Friedrich Schiller

By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.

~ Cesare Beccaria

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

~ Samuel Adams

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

~ George Mason

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

~ Thomas Hobbes

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

~ Plato