Quotes about men

„Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;“

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, book Voices of the Night

St. 7.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night

„Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job.“

—  Oswald Mosley, book My Life

My Life (1968), Ch.12.

„We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.“

—  William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

Source: Henry VIII

„Women may fall when there's no strength in men.“

—  William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet, Act II

„As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.“

—  Lois Wyse American advertising executive 1926 - 2007

„The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.“

—  Warren Farrell, book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.

„Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood“

—  Daniel Burnham American architect and urban designer 1846 - 1912

Burnham (1907) quoted in: Charles Moore (1921) Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities. Volume 2 http://archive.org/stream/danielhburnhamar02moor#page/n7/mode/2up. Chapter XXV "Closing in 1911-1912;" p. 147 http://archive.org/stream/danielhburnhamar02moor#page/147/mode/1up
Context: Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and our grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

„I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and our young, our women as well as our men.
I see nothing inconsistent between being proud of oneself and one's ancestors and, at the same time, seeing oneself first and foremost a member of the commonwealth of all races and creeds.“

—  Arthur Ashe American tennis player 1943 - 1993

Source: Days of Grace: A Memoir (1994), p. 186

„Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.“

—  Upton Sinclair American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist 1878 - 1968

https://books.google.com/books?id=CbfTjcDmA6gC&pg=RA1-PA26&lpg=RA1-PA26&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false The Book of Life (1921)

„We have given of our best to build up the Empire. We recall the names of Wellington, of Roberts, of White of Ladysmith, and we think of Coghill of Isandula, around whose body when it was found dead the flag of the British race, the old Union Jack, was found. All these were men of loyalist Ireland and mainly of Ulster. And now, forsooth, this great England, the great country that boasts of liberty, of adherence to principle, and of never deserting its friends, is to sacrifice the loyalists to the necessity of maintaining this heaven-sent Government in power.“

—  Edward Carson, Baron Carson Irish politician, barrister and judge 1854 - 1935

Speech in Eastbourne (25 November 1911), quoted in The Times (27 November 1911), p. 7

„I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.“

—  Geronimo leader of the Bedonkohe Apache 1829 - 1909

„Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.“

—  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Tamil politician and social reformer 1879 - 1973

Quoted in [.http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ibnZAAAAMAAJ Indian Journal of Social Development: An International Journal, Volume 7], p220.
Marriage

„I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.“

—  Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662

„It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere. “

—  Vince Lombardi American football player, coach, and executive 1913 - 1970

„In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.“

—  Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

No. 96 (16 February 1751)
Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)

„Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.“

—  Le Corbusier architect, designer, urbanist, and writer 1887 - 1965

The New York Times [obituary] (1965-08-28)
Attributed from posthumous publications

„We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.“

—  Rosemary Sutcliff English author 1920 - 1992