Men Quotes

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Diogenes

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Diogenes

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Donald Glover

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

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hilbert

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

David Hume

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

David Hume

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

David Icke

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Derek Jarman

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

Donald Johanson

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Donald Justice

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Denis Kearney

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Denis Kearney

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

Denis Kearney

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

David Low

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

D. H. Lawrence

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

Doris Lilly

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

David McCullough

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Democritus

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

Denise Mina