Top 100 Men Not Quotes
#1. I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
Albert Pike
#2. Wherefore, we would to God that we could persuade all men not to rebel against God, to provoke him to anger, but that all men would believe in Christ, and view his death, and suffer his cross and bear the shame of the world;
Joseph Smith Jr.
#3. Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
Stephen King
#4. Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were the objects. The fact that it's not been made by women means that the subjects are not women.
Deniz Gamze Erguven
#5. We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is made by men, not gods.
Mary Stewart
#6. Laroche was wrong about that, wrong about men not understanding love.
Anyway, most of the romantic poems and songs and paintings in the world were by men, so what was she talking about?
Josh Lanyon
#7. The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
Epicurus
#9. Christ's teaching, which came to be known to men, not by means of violence and the sword," they say, "but by means of non-resistance to evil, gentleness, meekness, and peaceableness, can only be diffused through the world by the example of peace, harmony, and love among its followers.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.
Lord Chesterfield
#12. After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
Ellen Glasgow
#13. Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
Jean De La Bruyere
#14. I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.
Ralph Ellison
#15. Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#16. A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
Horace Bushnell
#17. It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.
Simon Munnery
#18. There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
Albert Camus
#19. And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
Thomas Hobbes
#20. Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
Euripides
#21. Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#22. The school's role is to find the leaders of men, not the killers of men.
Pierce Brown
#23. Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Cesare Lombroso
#24. The church is to be set apart (sanctified) not by possessing a special religious piety but by participating in and manifesting the perfect eternal love of God. As Bonhoeffer said, Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
Gregory A. Boyd
#25. This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Eugene McCarthy
#26. Any fool can stick a blade into another's belly. The school's role is to find the leaders of men, not the killers of men. So the point, you silly little children, is not to kill, but to conquer.
Pierce Brown
#27. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#30. We are almost men, not quite warriors, and on some fateful day we meet an enemy for the first time and we hear the chants of battle, the threatening clash of blades on shields, and we begin to learn that the poets are wrong and that the proud songs lie.
Bernard Cornwell
#31. I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.
Doc Rivers
#32. In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
Epictetus
#33. We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.
Thomas S. Monson
#34. Your father died the night the town believed he did, and my captor was born from his ashes. Two men, not alike, strangers to each other.
Julie Berry
#35. We must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough
Samuel Butler
#36. So does nobody care about Ireland?"
"Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy.
Edward Rutherfurd
#37. Tell me, in a world where wealth is power, and power is the only freedom, what would desperate men not do to be heard?" "Civil
Claire North
#38. We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.
Jackson Katz
#39. That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#40. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn't join it. I'm not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it. And
Gregory David Roberts
#41. We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow
#42. We did an evil thing, father."
"What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible.
Daniel Abraham
#43. Men - not just babies like you, but old men, too - they always need to have a woman tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles.
James Baldwin
#44. And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
Richard Hovey
#45. Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
R. Scott Bakker
#46. God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes
#47. We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.
Tony La Russa
#48. There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.
Charles Caleb Colton
#49. I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Guillaume Apollinaire
#50. Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
Ian Caldwell
#51. Today God is bypassing men - not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks!
Leonard Ravenhill
#52. Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Diogenes
#53. Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
Mary Renault
#54. Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
Alan Ayckbourn
#55. Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#56. Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see
Men not afraid of God afraid of me.
Alexander Pope
#57. One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do!
Nikolai Gogol
#58. Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Seneca The Younger
#59. The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story; not by exhortation, but by the narration of an event.
J. Gresham Machen
#60. I'll remember you, he thinks, and as the gun carriage, with its coffin and its dented helmet pass him by, he closes his eyes.
Nothing will bring them back. Not the words of comfortable men. Not the words of politicians. Or the platitudes of paid poets.
Anna Hope
#61. she thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true romantics.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#62. The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#64. You get to know men, not by looking at them, but by having been one of them. - Theodore Roosevelt,
James J. Patterson
#65. All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
Alexander Trocchi
#66. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
#67. He is a rare bird,' the maester said. 'Most ravens will eat grain, but they prefer flesh. It makes them strong, and I fear they relish the taste of blood. In that they are like men ... and like men, not all ravens are alike.
George R R Martin
#68. A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
Jefferson Davis
#70. Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
Wilbur Smith
#71. The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
John Ruskin
#72. The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#74. I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney
#76. I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.
Erik Larson
#77. The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
Edward Bellamy
#78. What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#79. One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#80. Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Plutarch
#81. And I was just ecstatic about having contributed to him potentially hooking up with other men. Not.
Santino Hassell
#82. I cannot help but find it telling that she successfully felled two grown men in a single day." Mater's eyes slid to Corbin's bruised face. "If I had to guess, I would say she has experience defending herself physically against men. Not a very comforting thought.
Sarah M. Eden
#83. Like Johns, I am one of the little men, not interested in ideologies, tied to a flat Cambridgeshire landscape, a chalk quarry, a line of willows across the featureless fields, a market town
his thoughts scrabbled at the curtain
where he used to dance at the Saturday hops.
Graham Greene
#84. I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.
Sharon Kay Penman
#85. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
John Quincy Adams
#87. [Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.
Milovan Djilas
#88. We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?
Gregory David Roberts
#89. [...] I was created by cruel men. Not in a lab, not in a test tube, but through years of undeserved mistreatment at a time in life that's supposed to be magical. Early adulthood. Newfound freedom, newfound love.
Steph Sweeney
#90. It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. Not a single tree in the wood remained unbroken.
Phil Carradice
#92. I am a fisherman, a hunter, and a lover. A lover of men, not animals. And by men I mean women.
Jarod Kintz
#93. To pursue the impossible is madness: but it is impossible for evil men not to do things of this sort.
Marcus Aurelius
#94. A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.
Michael R. French
#95. I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.
Helen Fielding
#96. You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
Will Rogers
#97. I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.
E. M. Forster
#98. Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.
Robert Jensen
#99. We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
C.S. Lewis
#100. Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control themselves? Why, if men were the ones being tempted, were they not the ones being policed?
Mona Eltahawy
