Men - Quotes & Sayings
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Charles BaudelaireAll men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
Chief JosephIf you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.
Gloria SteinemMen are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. LawrenceThe first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles DickensI've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.
Pierce Brosnan'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxChrist's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.
John WycliffeMen, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QuintilianIt's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Jean de la BruyereMen are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
LivyI'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
Jackee HarryNicknamed 'Mad-Dog Mattis' by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn't an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining.
Ryan ZinkeYou may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
Robert OwenShy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
Henry TaylorThey call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'
Jane Welsh CarlyleWhen the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Clara ZetkinBy indignities men come to dignities.
Francis BaconWomen prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George SantayanaTrees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PericlesMen aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
CherMost men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Knute RockneOne must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Georg C. LichtenbergMen should strive to think much and know little.
DemocritusKindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
MenciusIt is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry NewmanMen cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
Edwin Louis ColeI know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Grover ClevelandMen tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Laurence SterneMen tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
Manolo BlahnikMen o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
Lord MountbattenMen are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Richard WhatelyIgnorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxLike all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence DurrellAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter ScottWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Ezra PoundIf the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae BrownAll men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Hilaire BellocEvery man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery ChanningMen won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
Douglas CouplandMen tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
Edwin Louis ColeDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Charles de GaulleIn life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Charles Caleb ColtonMen's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb ColtonEvery time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Dorothy L. SayersBoys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin HubbardMen are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Kin HubbardThere is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. HoweMen have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
E. W. Howe