Quotes about men
men political ruins
Defect in one's limb ruins a man. Chanakya
men rich calamity
Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.
men limits speak
He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.
men virtue fame
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
men evil lust
Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.
men wealth relation
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
men may void
The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.
men luck religion
He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
men rivers royal
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
men wealth sometimes
Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.
men two eight
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
men bird tree
Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
men religion desire
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
men ideas female
But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals. Charlaine Harris
men luck saws
Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.
men alive
Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.
men fool sometimes
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
men leisure common
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. Charles Baudelaire
men mirrors he-man
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
men vulgar dandy
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man
men taste vices
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
men important saint
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
men confusing speech
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
men narcissus metals
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
men hideous idleness
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
men might taste
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
men giving surprise
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
men water secret
A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
men like-family baudelaire
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
men literature
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
men hands honor
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
men flames evil
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark. Chaim Potok
men given blink-of-an-eye
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.