Quotes about men

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“Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty”

“Intelligent men are dangerous.”

“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”

“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”

“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”

“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.”

“Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings.”

“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.”

“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

“I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.”
“From all indications, you’ve acquired enough for ten men.”

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

“I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.”

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

“We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.”

“In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.”

“There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.”

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman.

-Jillian's mother”

“I think men who can cry are strong men”

“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in the minds of men.”

“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”

“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.”

“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”

“So long as there are men, there will be wars.”

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”

“We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”

“It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.”

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”

“I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”

“I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.”

“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”

“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”

“I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love”

“So, Beav, tell me about yourself."
"I'm Blue."
"Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either."
"My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.”

“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”

“If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.”

“Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”

“Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.”

“I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.”

“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”

“All literary men are Red Sox fans—to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”

“Can't any of us stand up to those women?"

"Nope," said at least three men in unison.”

“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”

“I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.”

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”

“By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.”

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men — they are far superior and always have been.”

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”

“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea, they become powerless when they oppose it.”

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“I know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don’t understand, I actually like you…most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)”

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

“Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.”

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”

“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.”

“Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.”

“So does nobody care about Ireland?"
"Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy.”

“I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty.”

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”

“The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.”

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

“A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.”

“Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.”

“In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

“Did you take Joyce's engine?'
'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.”

“I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.”

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

“He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”

“My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.”

“I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum”

“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.”

“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”

“Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.”

“Many men spend their lives living in the wrong corner of their souls, mainly out of fear of what they might find on the other side.”

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…”

“In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”

“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.”

“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”

“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.”

“That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”

“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

“Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.”

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”