Men Quotes

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

Machinery makes men like itself.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

It's always a longer walk to the men's room, buckaroo.

There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.