He Man Quotes - Page 29

• The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Desire, Personal Desire

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• The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Support

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

  Richard Spaight Donnell

  Inspirational, Men, Crowds

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• If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Motivation, Opportunity

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• Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.

  Milt Schmidt

  Hockey, Player, Men

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• The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

  Ernest Hello

  Success, Giving Up, Moving

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• When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.

  Laozi

  Sorry, Apology, Army

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• A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Army, Men

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.145, New Word City

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• It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

  Drake

  Humble, Home, Jealous

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

  Neil Peart

  Giving Up, Heart, Don't Give Up

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• Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

  Josh Billings

  Pride, Men, Carriages

  "Josh Billings' Wit and Humor".

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• The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Men, Felt

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money.

  Peggy Noonan

  Humor, Men, Law

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Flower, Men, Seeds

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.18

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• It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Drinking, Beer

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• He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Perfect

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• Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Two

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Games

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• There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Lightning

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• It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good lines, therefore all the good laughs, all the great moments- the men, who had joined us to sit on stage, started squirming rather uncomfortably. And got really bored. Because they weren't used to being the supporting cast. It was fascinating to feel their discomfort, to discuss it with them afterwards when they said, 'It's boring to play the girl role.' And I said, 'Yeah. Yeah, ya think? Welcome to our world.'

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Bad Ass, Men

  "Olivia Wilde Just Dropped Some Serious Knowledge On How The Media Can Empower Women" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2014.

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• The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Errors, Gossip

  Letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807.

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• He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

  John of the Cross

  Opportunity, Men, Hands

  Saint John of the Cross (1966). “The collected works”

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• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Men, Sorrow

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• The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Hope, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.289, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Artist, Greatness

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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