Why Men Shouldn't Take Messages

Man thinks and God laughs. - Yiddish Proverb

Men are born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau

The gods play games with men as balls. - Titus Maccius Plautus

The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Pittacus

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A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. - Hungary Proverb

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

What a lot of things there are a man can do without. - Socrates

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after. - Polish Proverb

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer

Men must have legends, else they will die of strangeness. - Les A Murray

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

Success will come to the side that has the last man standing. - Philippe Petain

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination. - Kristin Hannah

Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings? - Milton Berle

What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Homer Simpson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Samuel Johnson

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Goethe

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. - Molly McGee

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. - Ernest Hemingway

Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. - Lee De Forest

What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? - Matthew 16:26

There is sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. - Eric Sevareid

A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure. - Lee Segall

A girl who thinks that a man will treat her better after marriage than before is a fool. - William C. Hall

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. - Niccolo Machiavelli

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite. - William Blake

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron. - Marilyn Vos Savant

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. - Oscar Wilde

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. - J K Rowling

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their job. - Samuel Goldwyn

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. - William R Inge

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. - Francis Bacon