Men Quotes

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115

Don't worry. I'm only your escort tonight. I would offer to protect you from the drunken attentions of the other men, but I know all too well that you're quite capagble of holding your own.

Don’t worry," I said. "These men are good. They’re going to heal the world.

I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.