Quotes about men
men play choices
I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform. Ben Kingsley
men play roles
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
men age aging
The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
men good-man pebbles
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man. Ben Harper
men action every-man
Every man's actions belong to him.
men interviews lifetime
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
men glasses speech
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech. Ben Jonson
men benefits might
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
men deities fortune
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
men cigarette-smoke smoking
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
men office good-man
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.
men popularity slave
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
men law order
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
men wrecks strange
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
men giving glory
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
men law people
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
men silence speech
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
men soul infinite
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
men shadow mistress
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
men way salt
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
men smoking orangutans
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
men enough
Are you woman enough to be my man? Eddie Vedder
men rocks games
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
men track giving
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment. Earl Nightingale
men mind
The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.
men law broken
We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
men rich get-rich
No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.
men focus succeed
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
men doors lasts
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. Elizabeth Bibesco
men president want
[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no. Elizabeth Dole
men moths
...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do.. Elizabeth Bishop
men shadow hats
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
men car
Makes of men date, like makes of car. Elizabeth Bowen