“If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.”
Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Quotes about men page 30
“Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Book of Shadows
“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer
Source: The Game of Kings
“Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings.”
Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014) American philosopher
In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009), 59. As attributed on a web page using the quote as a title at web site of Richard Dawkins Foundation.
Variant: Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
George S. McGovern (1922–2012) American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Catch a Mate
“I think men who can cry are strong men”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
Misattributed to Samuel Adams as early as 1990. Also misattributed to John Adams. Actually originates with Diane Ackerman, who, in an article on Samuel Adams, "The Man Who Made a Revolution", published in the September 6, 1987 issue of the widely circulated Sunday newspaper supplement Parade, wrote: "Early on, he realized that revolutions don't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds." (page numbers vary, article on pp. 20–23 in most editions with the preceding quote on p. 22 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qfQaAAAAIBAJ&pg=4292%2C1111900) Source: Mansour Khalid, The Government They Deserve: The Role of the Elite in Sudan's Political Evolution, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1990, p. 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=jZ9yAAAAMAAJ&q=brushfires. Source: Will Bunch, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, Hi-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, New York: Harper, 2010, p. 49. Source: https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/it_does_not_require_a_majority_to_prevail_but_rather_an_irate_tireless_mino, https://lists.h-net.org/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lx&sort=3&list=H-OIEAHC&month=1310, http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-October/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”
Ian Fleming book Goldfinger
Source: Goldfinger
“So long as there are men, there will be wars.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: The Duke and I
“It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
Agatha Christie book The Mystery of the Blue Train
Hercule Poirot
Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator
Source: The Foreshadowing
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
Letter to James Warren (24 October 1780) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2094
“Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.”
Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“Can't any of us stand up to those women?"
"Nope," said at least three men in unison.”
Robyn Carr American writer
Source: Shelter Mountain
“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers
Source: Starship Troopers
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Introduction to his reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYnfSV27vLY of Lord of the Flies in the unabridged audio version (1980)
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea, they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
(zh-TW) 性相近也、習相遠也。子曰、唯上知與下愚不移。 note: The Analects, Chapter I, Other chapters
Source: Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Confucius / Quotes / The Analects / Chapter I / Other chapters
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”
James Allen book As a Man Thinketh
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.”
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
Edward Rutherfurd (1948) British writer
Source: The Rebels of Ireland
Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound
Source: Blood Bound
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience
“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”
J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937) American theologian
Sally Gardner (1954) British children's writer and illustrator
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Source: The World As I See It
Context: How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. 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....
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Journal entry (1938), quoted in the Introduction to a 1994 edition of Of Mice and Men by Susan Shillinglaw, p. vii
Context: 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. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564)
Context: Readers, friends, if you turn these pages
Put your prejudice aside,
For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous,
Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
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.
“Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.”
Atul Gawande book The Checklist Manifesto
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right