Men Quotes

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.

One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself.

I learned from the git-go in the joint to get in touch with the soft, nurturing side of myself, the feminine side.

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

Man without mysticism is a monster.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.

Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.