Men Quotes

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.