Men Explain Things To Me Quotes

#1. Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of men and women. The SPIRIT is not in the fundamental nature of humans but is the supernatural gift of God, TO BE FOUND IN CHRISTIANS ONLY.

John Wesley

#4. And who knew?
That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert,
Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven
You may have every title, every big shot degree,
But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem

Boonaa Mohammed

#5. Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Gore Vidal

#6. That's all he said?' Mrs. Royle demanded.
'He's not one for lengthy explanations,' Honoria said.
'Powerful men do not explain their actions,' Cecily announced dramatically.

Julia Quinn

#7. A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Agatha Christie

#8. The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#9. One of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

Junot Diaz

#10. A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Ayn Rand

#11. Strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

Albert Einstein

#13. To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

Sidney Morgenbesser

#14. There's a strange something, which without a brain
Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain,
Planted in man, to bind him to that earth,
In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

Charles Churchill

#15. When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

Karl Barth

#16. Explain to me again why we're at a whorehouse?"
Gwenvael sighed around his ale. "Because, my thick-headed
brother, if you want information about human men then you go to the
one place all human men come to eventually.

G.A. Aiken