30,129 Quotes About Men

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.