Quotes about men
men interesting mouths
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. Arthur Schopenhauer
men solitude personal-values
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
men addresses form
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
men watches use
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
men maturity eight
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.
men giving towns
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
men appearance mankind
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
men order luxury
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.
men thinking goal
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.
men two three
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
men europe answers
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.
men differences thinker
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
men hands soul
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
men degrees intellect
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
men mind anarchy
Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.
men compassion animal
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
men free-will determine
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
men opinion global-warming
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
men add needs
Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life. Aristotle Onassis
men world casting
I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world Arjun Rampal
men gold honest
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! Aristophanes
men slavery half
A slave is but half a man.
men debt owing
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
men wicked honest
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
men voice feminism
It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
men rogues honest
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
men house homeland
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
men grieving hands
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
men humanity may
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
men causes british
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. Antonio Munoz Molina
men lust vices
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. Antonio Gramsci
men function
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals
men mind consciousness
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.