Top 100 Other Men Quotes
#2. It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!
don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
George Meredith
#3. What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it.
William Dietrich
#4. Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
Benjamin Franklin
#5. But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.
Eleanor Catton
#6. Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.
Eoin Colfer
#7. I nursed that flame as if it were my only son, and all round the ram nineteen other men did likewise.
M.C. Scott
#8. The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.
H.L. Mencken
#9. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.
Henry Wotton
#10. The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Keith Olbermann
#11. When he rebels, a man
identifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarity
is metaphysical.
Albert Camus
#12. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. He does not achieve through other men nor for other men, he achieves through and for himself alone, then offers it to others.
Ayn Rand
#14. How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes? This
Barack Obama
#15. I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Jacque Fresco
#16. Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#17. What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men ... Some of the best conversations I've ever had with men have been over a cigar.
James Belushi
#18. My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
Charles Baudelaire
#19. Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.
Stephen Richards
#20. A tyrant needs no real reason for what he does, Quellion said. He was a young man, but not foolish. At times, he sounded like other men Spook had known. Wise men. The difference, then, was one of extremity. Or, perhaps, timing?
Brandon Sanderson
#21. A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. It's no wonder we're always getting' mistaken for queers. Look at us - a bunch'a proper men, never growin' old, 'angin' about in the dark, bitin' other men on the neck. They don't fear us 'cause we got claws and fangs; they fear us 'cause they think we're comin' after their sons.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#23. In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
Robert Dale Owen
#24. So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
Marlo Thomas
#25. For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?
Zora Neale Hurston
#26. I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#27. As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
Pierre Corneille
#28. The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.
George Steiner
#29. Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.
Richard Steele
#30. Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
Samuel Johnson
#31. I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
Matthew Arnold
#32. No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.
Winston Graham
#33. It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Marcus Aurelius
#34. The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#35. There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested.
John Howard Griffin
#37. I think it's very important for the male homosexual to recognize that he is a sexual target for other men, and that is why he is despised, and why he is called a faggot. He is called a faggot because other males need him.
James Baldwin
#38. Those who shake the State are easily the first to be engulfed in its destruction. The fruits of dissension are not gathered by the one who began it: he stirs and troubles the waters for other men to fish in.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
Simone Weil
#40. An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.
William Stanley Jevons
#41. By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
Janet Flanner
#42. Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#43. The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#44. In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Nicolas Chamfort
#45. People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
Samuel Johnson
#46. A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#47. The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.
Woodrow Wilson
#48. I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfactions [sic] than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science.
Lawrence Joseph Henderson
#49. Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns
or dollars. Take your choice
there is no other.
Ayn Rand
#50. Only a fool loves war," said Calvar, "or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
David Gemmell
#51. He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts.
Eleanor Catton
#52. In fact, there was a sort of satisfaction and pride in knowing that Kiki was his. Other men could look, they could envy, they could even covet, but she was going home with him. Every. Time.
Genevieve Dewey
#53. I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love ...
John Geddes
#54. I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
George Eliot
#55. Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.
John Ruskin
#56. The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.
Ayn Rand
#58. Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see what they invent.They don't really see each other. Now she was in love with him and she didn't even know his real name, didn't know anything real about him.
Andrew Klavan
#59. But Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks - most
Jude Deveraux
#60. Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men
he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is the compost of the imagination.
Graham Greene
#61. I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
Ernest Shackleton
#62. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new,
active, and immediate.
Washington Irving
#63. Hurt spreads and grows and reaches out to break what's good. Time heals all wounds, but often it's only by the application of the grave, and while we live some hurts live with us, burning, making us twist and turn to escape them. And as we twist, we turn into other men.
Mark Lawrence
#64. Men always want what they can't have, or what other men want. It's a scientific fact.
Gina L. Maxwell
#65. Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
James Russell Lowell
#66. A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same
Alchemist
#67. Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
Margery Allingham
#68. If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
Romain Rolland
#69. You can always rely on a woman to fight dirty, I said, and all the other men nodded solemnly in unison - until
Simon R. Green
#70. I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your primer concern within other men
Ayn Rand
#71. The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Owen D. Young
#72. We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
Owen Feltham
#73. I'm a bit down. Liza Minelli and David Gest, I don't know how it didn't work out. How can a man who likes other men and a woman who drinks not get along? The interesting thing is this - there is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minelli.
Jon Stewart
#74. Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#75. We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.
Charles Bukowski
#76. There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.
Stephanie Sigman
#77. For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
Theodore White
#78. A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
William Penn
#79. I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
Abraham Lincoln
#80. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.
Mignon McLaughlin
#82. But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.
John Denham
#83. 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
#84. Reputation was everything in the Old South. The opinion of others was a measure of inner worth. Virtue, honor, valor, and respect simply did not exist apart from the view of a man in the minds of other men.
Gary L. Roberts
#85. [A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
Immanuel Kant
#86. It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
James Otis
#87. A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.
Robert D. McFadden
#89. That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes
#90. We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.
Thomas Merton
#91. We supped at our pints, imagining a whale fighting a giant squid, probably just as thousands of other men in pubs across the land were doing at that moment.
Danny Wallace
#92. I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself ... The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son)
Phillipp Meyer
#93. He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.
Charles Dickens
#94. Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.
Swami Vivekananda
#95. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy? ...
Daniel Defoe
#97. In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.
John Steinbeck
#98. Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.
Matt Chandler
#99. Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.
Jimmy Savile
#100. The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic.
R.W. Grant
