Men - Quotes & Sayings

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Charles Baudelaire

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Chief Joseph

If 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 Steinem

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

D. H. Lawrence

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Charles Dickens

I'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 Wilcox

Christ'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 Wycliffe

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Quintilian

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Jean de la Bruyere

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Livy

I'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 Harry

Nicknamed '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 Zinke

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Robert Owen

Shy 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 Taylor

They 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 Carlyle

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Clara Zetkin

By indignities men come to dignities.

Francis Bacon

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Pericles

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Knute Rockne

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Democritus

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Mencius

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

John Henry Newman

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Edwin Louis Cole

I 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 Cleveland

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Laurence Sterne

Men 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 Blahnik

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Lord Mountbatten

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Richard Whately

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

William Ellery Channing

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Douglas Coupland

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Edwin Louis Cole

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Charles de Gaulle

In 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 Colton

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Charles Caleb Colton

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kin Hubbard

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Kin Hubbard

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

E. W. Howe

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

E. W. Howe