Quotes about men

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“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.”

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”

“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

“No, not you two. Stay here.'
'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.'
'You really want to go first?'
'Of course no. But I'd like the chance toto go first.”

“It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.”

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”

“This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.”

“Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.”

“The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.”

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”

“I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.”

“Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.”

“Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.”

“Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.”

“But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.”

“When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”

“Frequency of sex – Women sometimes wanted; men always needed.”

“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea”

“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."

(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)”

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

“Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.”

“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.”

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”

“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”

“Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point”

“So shall the world go on,
To good malignant, to bad men benign,
Under her own weight groaning.”

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.”

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”

“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”

“Quoting: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

“Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.”

“That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.”

“To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”

“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”

“Men. You can't live with them… and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.”

“The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.”

“The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

“slept all night in the cedar grove,
i was born to ramble, born to rove,
some men are searchin' for the holy grail,
but there ain't nothin' sweeter
than ridin' the rails”

“Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned.
'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.”

“She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.”

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”

“Men didn't respect beauty… they used it.”

“I keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.”

“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”

“And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.”

“Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”

“Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.”

“Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.”

“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”

“We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”

“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. His auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician.”

“Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not"-Don Corleone”

“She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.”

“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.”

“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”

“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”

“War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.”

“But I wasn't happy… when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt].
'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace…
The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me… three more men does make a lot of difference.”

“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.”

“You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”

“Harry Dresden: Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men’s auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.”

“Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.”

“Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.”

“Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.”

“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”

“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”

“… some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”

“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D. C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.”

“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”

“Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)”

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.”

“It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.”

“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.”

“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.”

“First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend”

“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”

“But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.”

“A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.”

“You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.”

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”

“one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.”

“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”

“When a man likes you, he will be interested in finding out what you like. If he makes you happy, he feels more secure. Everything men do is intended to impress women.”

“Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.”

“Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate,
Whose table once a Guest, but not
The second time, is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect,
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer’s corn;
Men eat of it and die.”