Top 100 Understand Men Quotes
#1. Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
Warren Farrell
#3. Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
John Steinbeck
#4. It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.
Lea DeLaria
#5. I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?
Rene Russo
#6. I understand men much better than most women I know.
Catherine Bell
#7. I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.
Dalai Lama
#8. I have nothing to say to men and never had. Judging from the little time I've spent with them, their usual conversation is sickening. Besides, they bore me. I believe," he hesitated, then concluded, "I believe I don't understand men.
Colette
#9. Lucy: I don't understand men.
Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.
Sabrina Jeffries
#10. I don't believe I will ever understand men. The more I learn about them, the less they make sense
Sylvia Day
#11. They'd need no reason!" shouted Arbeely. "Why can't you understand? Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!
Helene Wecker
#12. I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.
Maureen Dowd
#13. Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
Confucius
#14. Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
Peter Straub
#15. You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.
John Grisham
#16. I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn't.
Diana Gabaldon
#17. It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.
Bertrand Russell
#18. I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
John Steinbeck
#19. Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.
Vittorio Gassman
#20. When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
Elizabeth George
#21. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#22. I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!
Ann Romney
#23. Those men, they're built differently. They love differently, and they need different things. We're the same way. This is the life we know, and while some may not understand it . . . we do. Our love is stronger than most couples, and you and Liam are no different.
Corinne Michaels
#24. I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.
Louis L'Amour
#25. There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
Robert Frost
#26. When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is.
Black Hawk
#27. Sometimes I cannot understand the things men do. The way they gnash and tear at one another - it's worse than wolves or foxes.
Janette Oke
#28. Worthy I will not change the rhythm of my heartbeat to accommodate men who do not understand her song. She sounds beautiful and deserves to be heard with open ears.
Alexandra Elle
#29. If a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
Agnes Repplier
#31. Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.
Joanna Lumley
#32. I told you what I wanted from you. If you're refusing, fine. I'll pull out and finish on my own. But you'll be wearing cum on your dress for the rest of the day. Either way those men are going to know you were in here being the dirty little slut that you are. Your choice. Do you understand?
Laurelin Paige
#33. I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
Amy Winehouse
#34. If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.
Talib Kweli
#35. Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin
#36. As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
Ernest Renan
#37. The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
Carl Jung
#38. The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry
Karl Marx
#39. My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
William Shakespeare
#40. The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public ... What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
Amado Nervo
#41. Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.
Euripides
#42. Eleanor had followed Richard, marveling, as always, at the male inability to speak the language of the heart. "One day I hope to understand why men see sentiment as the ultimate enemy," she said dryly, "but I'll not be holding my breath until it happens.
Sharon Kay Penman
#44. it is quite impossible for us men clothed about with this dense covering of flesh to understand or speak of the divine and lofty and immaterial energies of the Godhead, except by the use of images and types and symbols derived from our own life(7).
John Damascene
#45. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#46. I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier's uniform.
Joan Nestle
#48. I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don't understand, I actually like you ... most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.
Neville Chamberlain
#50. Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.
Theodore Roosevelt
#51. All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
Coco Chanel
#52. If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#53. Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.
Nathaniel Branden
#55. It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.
Maggie Stiefvater
#56. Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
John Henry Newman
#57. I think breeds of dogs and breeds of men are quite a bit alike. If you think it's insulting that I compare people with animals, well, if you knew how I love animals, you would understand that coming from me, this is a compliment.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#58. A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes about some novel they don't understand and then spend the rest of the evening moaning about how dreadful men are.
Nick Hornby
#59. I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.
Danae Elon
#60. Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code.
Kristen Ashley
#61. No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.
Miyamoto Musashi
#62. With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.
P.T. Barnum
#63. God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#64. I talked for hours, and people listened because they hated the silence too. They were happy to create it, and then terrified by what they made. And so I came to understand the split at the root of the soul of all men.
Aliya Whiteley
#65. All of us
men and women alike
have to understand and acknowledge how stereotypes and biases cloud our beliefs and perpetuate the status quo.
Sheryl Sandberg
#66. There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#67. I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
Mary Shelley
#68. When you don't understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.
Jim George
#69. There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.
Elizabeth Berg
#70. t is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#71. Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.
Bruce Lee
#72. A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
J.C. Ryle
#73. The guys who fear becoming
fathers don't understand that fathering
is not something perfect men do, but something
that perfects the man. The end product of child
raising is not the child, but the parent.
Frank Pittman
#74. I didn't understand what it was about men - not all men, but a good portion of them - that turned a good, solid "NO" into an "I'm just playing coy; try harder.
Nenia Campbell
#75. And why did men insist on buying the largest size? Didn't they understand the concept of sizes? Did they think buying a magnum sized condom was going to fool me into thinking their Toyota Camery was an aircraft carrier?
Penny Reid
#76. I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.
Larry Fessenden
#77. Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
Grace Jones
#78. Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.
Jeanne Moreau
#79. I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
Charles Darwin
#80. If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#81. Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.
Pharoahe Monch
#82. As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.
Blaise Pascal
#83. Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.
I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.
Toba Beta
#84. He said that that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it.
Cormac McCarthy
#85. People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been
for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.
Ayn Rand
#86. There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#87. What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
George Bernard Shaw
#88. Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#89. God will help us - said the holy man. - But first let us understand the reason for these pains. I suggest Your Majesty confesses now, for confession makes men face up to their problems, and liberates much guilt.
Paulo Coelho
#90. I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
John Owen
#91. One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender
and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#92. I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
Hamid Drake
#94. I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.
Garry Marshall
#95. But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
Sheldon Vanauken
#96. All women were prone to some bad habits. As were we men. But as a man, I have to say that women were more of a struggle to understand than we men.
Michele Renae
#97. Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
Honore De Balzac
#98. Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
Jean-Paul Sartre
#99. Those who condemn what they do not understand are, surely, little men.
Sheldon Vanauken
#100. People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
Glenn T. Seaborg
