Men Quotes

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.