Top 100 Quotes About Men
#1. You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.
Ernie Hudson
#3. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
#4. Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thing that anybody does.
Rufi Thorpe
#5. Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.
Matthew Arnold
#6. I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Hillary Clinton
#7. Some people, very many actually, both men and women, complained of having enjoyed a very loving relationship with someone, but of no longer feeling the same way despite still being very fond of that person, with whom they generally lived.
Francois Lelord
#8. Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
Pythagoras
#9. For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch
#10. Men were not meant to leave the earth. Spend too much time in the clouds and you never want to come back down again.
George R R Martin
#11. Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
Frank Herbert
#12. Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
Herodotus
#13. Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Oscar Wilde
#14. In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
#15. You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.
Robin Hobb
#16. It is in the nature of 9 men out of 10 that what may be theirs for the picking up, they are much inclined to despise, and what seems to be out of reach, they instantly and fervently desire.
Georgette Heyer
#17. How you men stand up for each other!
How you women war against each other!
Oscar Wilde
#18. A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.
Yogi Berra
#19. I hate it if I'm at a party and see nothing but gay men - I don't want to be there. If your party doesn't have sexy, wonderful women at it then it's not a party.
Jason Sellards
#20. Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others ... that's gross.
Nadine Velazquez
#21. It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.
Izaak Walton
#22. It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, and its will to survive is utterly broken, when its children are taken from it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !
Akbar
#25. Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving. There was ruin everywhere and we should see more of it.
Rebecca West
#27. The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne
Madame Roland
#28. If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.
Julie Garwood
#30. Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.
Eileen Myles
#31. I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#32. But worries are for people who can't pull grown men apart with their bare hands.
Eliza Crewe
#33. When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole - a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
Barbara Deming
#35. Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#36. Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence,
Ayn Rand
#37. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
Friedrich Holderlin
#38. He should have stayed a frog. Not all men are meant to dance with dragons.
George R R Martin
#39. He wanted to ask her how many men had fallen in love with her. But she wasn't the kind of woman who let you ask that question.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#40. I thought I knew you," she snapped. "I thought you were a good man, down deep"
Cett shook his head. "The good men are all dead, Allrianne. They died inside that city.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around.
Charles Kelley
#43. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.
Davy Crockett
#44. Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen
#45. Call them robbers and cutthroats
were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world that drove these men to steal.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#46. I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'
Ricky Martin
#47. Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
Donald Glover
#48. We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.
Oswald Chambers
#49. If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
Romola Garai
#50. For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.
Richard Hooker
#51. Women do too much shit to impress men who can barely tell the difference.
Anna Todd
#52. MacKensie, much as men don't like to share this fact, we rarely die from not getting off.
Cherise Sinclair
#53. There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.
R.A. Lafferty
#54. Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
Klemens Von Metternich
#55. I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
Sally Mann
#56. Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
Patricia Marx
#57. Charlie started crying, in the convulsive, soundless way that men do. "Don't you understand," he said after composing himself, "that's a funeral dirge for the first wave." We all thought about that, the many lives lost before we even opened our eyes this morning.
Suzanne Hayes
#58. Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.
Tracy McMillan
#60. I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear "no," and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.
Gavin De Becker
#61. Over the years I've noticed that only men use this phrase - "unlucky in love" - in reference exclusively to unmarried women, as if they can't possibly comprehend that contentment or even happiness is possible without the centrality of a man.
Kate Bolick
#62. Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
Adam Lambert
#63. Really the only time men and women get along is when women want sex.
Brian South
#64. Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed.
Billy Graham
#65. If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.
Jennifer Shahade
#66. Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.
Robin Hobb
#67. The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#68. The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.
Henry Fielding
#69. I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.
Kate Sherwood
#70. It's 2014, and women are still paid less than men. Does this suggest that a gender pay gap is an unfortunately permanent fixture? Will it still be with us in 50 years? I would predict yes. But by that point, it will be men who will be earning less than women.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#71. The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.
Henry Adams
#72. Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
Fiona Apple
#73. Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#74. God's way must be the best way. Follow it though men think you a fool, and you will be truly wise.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#75. rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.
Booker T. Washington
#76. I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.
Chelsea Peretti
#77. Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
Francis Parker Yockey
#78. Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
John Ruskin
#79. Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.
Charles Lapworth
#80. My good fellow," said Mesnil, stopping, "ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men like you.
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
#81. Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.
Robert Webb
#82. The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
Sherwood Anderson
#83. The human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-men seem actually nonexistent
D.H. Lawrence
#84. A true prince. One of the finest, least dedicated men in the whole world.
Joseph Heller
#85. Men bore me;
Women abhor me;
Children floor me;
Society stinks
J.D. Salinger
#86. Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#87. Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
Brian Tracy
#88. I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.
Sean Penn
#89. You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."
I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of
when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.
V.C. Andrews
#90. The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere
#91. The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.
Rick Yancey
#92. I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.
Nick Antosca
#93. Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.
Ian Shoales
#94. If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
John Vanbrugh
#95. Men are psychologically unstable, too prone to emotions; not to be relied upon in moments of crisis.' 'That's
Andrzej Sapkowski
#96. Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.
John Galliano
#97. Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
Aeschylus
#98. Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.
Nenia Campbell
#99. I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
Andrew Dickson White
#100. I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember?
Sharon Sala
