Quotes about men

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“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.”

“Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You… you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.”

“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

“love is what moves the world, I've always thought… it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down… bring them low… and make them crawl…”

“When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.”

“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”

“Women are fiercer by far than men.”

“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.”

“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”

“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”

“Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

“It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.”

“It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.”

“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”

“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”

“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.”

“Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.”

“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”

“… sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.”

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“Men are punished by their sins, not for them.”

“As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.”

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

“Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?

She had shaken her head slowly.

Men and women who can't get over their past… That's what ghosts are.”

“There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and woman to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

“So live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts”

“Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”

“When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.”

“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.”

“Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.”

“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”

“I don't like it when I outweigh my men.”

“In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.”

“Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.”

“We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.”

“He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.”

“Real men don’t moisturise.”

“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”

“Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”

“I collected men with interesting names.”

“The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.”

“Men are only as great as they are kind.”

“The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father”

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”

“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!”

“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”

“They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.”

“If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”

“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

“There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.”

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”

“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”

“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?”

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

“An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.”

“Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.”

“What is it about men that make women so lonely?”

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”

“If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle”

“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”

“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”

“Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.”

“Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.”

“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”

“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them”

“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”

“Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.”

“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”

“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”

“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.”

“The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.”

“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

“Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.”

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.”

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.”

“Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted.
Shiloh doesn’t care.”

“Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.”

“All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.”

“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.”

“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”