Top 100 Men Never Quotes
#1. Men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#2. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.
J.D. Jordan
#3. Some men still haven't come home from this war. And some men never will.
Teresa Medeiros
#5. I've been shot through the heart, men! Never have I seen such smoldering beauty.
Shannon Hale
#6. Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.
Alice Hoffman
#7. It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men - never!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#8. Men never fail to underestimate women.
Zhao Yun
#10. Some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight.
Charles Bukowski
#11. Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful
William Arthur Ward
#12. Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
Virginia Woolf
#14. In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Yes, well, you're supposed to. Men never do as they're told. Case in point, this moment, where you have the startling rudeness to refuse being consumed.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
Albert Camus
#21. "As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."
Benjamin Disraeli
#22. Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lance Loud
#23. Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
Sidney Sheldon
#25. You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.
Leo Rosten
#26. Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.'
'And men never do,' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.
Jeanette Winterson
#27. Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.
Dorothy Parker
#28. Never cry in front of these men. Never cry. Ever. It's only hair. Hair will grow back.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#29. For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.
Hesiod
#30. Men never hesitated to declare their presence. They were permitted to live aloud, in reverberating thuds and clunks, while ladies were always schooled to abide in hushed whispers.
Tessa Dare
#31. Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurber
#32. There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.
A.C. Gaughen
#33. Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.
Thiruman Archunan
#34. Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.
Anthony Liccione
#35. Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.
William Feather
#36. Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.
Euripides
#38. Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
Blaise Pascal
#39. Many men never locate their own truth. They're scared to wager their glistening years finding out.
Joseph McElroy
#40. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
#42. Prudent men never trusted their luck. But Kennit had long ago decided that a man had to trust his luck in order for it to grow.
Robin Hobb
#43. What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!
Charles Dickens
#44. Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
William Graham Sumner
#45. Men never had to deal with this, Faith thought. Men didn't hide in bathrooms and wrestle microfiber and pantyhose. Totally not fair. Men had it easy. Did men get bikini waxed and wear uncomfortable underwear? No, they did not. Faith would bet her life that a man had invented thongs. Men sucked.
Kristan Higgins
#46. Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.
Jane Austen
#47. I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
Cathy Guisewite
#48. Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
John Buchan
#50. Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
Gautama Buddha
#51. Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#52. Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
Mignon McLaughlin
#53. Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#54. Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#55. Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Queen Victoria
#56. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
#57. Of course, as everyone knows, neither my five books nor any five hundred books are sufficient to silence and pertinacity. It is the glory of vain men never to yield to the truth.
Augustine Of Hippo
#58. Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.
Clive James
#59. Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Diogenes
#61. Men have no cause to criticize women about the way they are about weddings. Because men are like that about sports, but it never ends. At least women, after the wedding, say it wasn't that big a deal and they're never going to look at the DVD again. Men never stop being crazy about sports.
Dave Barry
#62. Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
William Shakespeare
#63. Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy.
Naomi Wolf
#64. Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it
Leo Tolstoy
#65. Fools rush in, where wise men never go,
But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?
Johnny Mercer
#67. Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
Tryon Edwards
#68. She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#69. It's no wonder we're always getting' mistaken for queers. Look at us - a bunch'a proper men, never growin' old, 'angin' about in the dark, bitin' other men on the neck. They don't fear us 'cause we got claws and fangs; they fear us 'cause they think we're comin' after their sons.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#71. The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.
Jane Austen
#72. I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.
George H. Morris
#73. Good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. Come, my men! never say die while there's a shot in the locker.
Frederick Marryat
#75. The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
Robert Jordan
#76. What would the world be like if men never ruled again?
David Vann
#77. We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.
Woodrow Wilson
#78. It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.
Emma Forrest
#79. Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
Clark Gable
#80. [It may be true that] men never know a pretty thing when they see it. [But men do] know a lady when they see one.
Louisa May Alcott
#81. Great men never look at a person's exterior. They think of his heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. You Don't Have to Be Perfect. Most Men Never Think Like That.
Hillary Clinton
#83. Men never understand that all a woman truly wants is a man who will listen.Understand.Pay her bills.And,of course,love her madly even when her hips wide due to an unfortunate addiction to bon bons.
- Lady Jersey to Mrs.Cowper,as the two watched dancers waltz at Almack's.
Karen Hawkins
#84. Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#85. But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child
#86. Hot women have to stop putting long paragraphs of text on their bodies. I know you think it's sexy but one thing that men never think is, "Gee, you know what would make this sex better? Having something to read."
Bill Maher
#87. The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
Simone De Beauvoir
#88. Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.
Emma Donoghue
#89. You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large ... Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.
Melisa M. Hamling
#90. Most men never discover what they've got inside. A man has to face up to trouble before he knows.
Louis L'Amour
#91. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
#92. Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
William Shakespeare
#93. There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
#94. There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
#95. Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
Horace
#97. Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
Sophocles
#98. I never cared for red headed men. I think they look like shrimp boiled to peel.
Anita Diamant
#100. Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!
Gabriele D'Annunzio
