Men quotes

Explore the wisdom, wit, and insight shared by great men throughout history. Read inspiring quotes that capture the essence of masculinity, honor, and resilience on our quote website dedicated to men.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind.

- Sam Owens

Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into Swansons.

- Ron Swanson

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

- John Calvin

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

- Margaret Cavendish

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

- D. W. Griffith

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

- Saint Augustine

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

- Ernest Thompson Seton

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

- Franklin Knight Lane

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

- Ty Cobb

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

- Jean de la Bruyere

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

- J. William Fulbright

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

- Hesiod

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

- Henry Clay

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

- John H. Reagan

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

- Ernestine Rose

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

- Ben Folds

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

- Charles Evans Hughes

I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.

- Kristin Davis

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

- Daisy Fuentes

Bad men are full of repentance.

- Aristotle

Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.

- Wilford O. Cross

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

- Ben Jonson

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

- Theodor Adorno

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

- Yousuf Karsh

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

- Sigmund Freud

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

- Benjamin Bratt