30,129 Quotes About Men

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose...