Men - Quotes & Sayings

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Edmund Burke

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Ray Bradbury

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

Jennifer Lopez

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Herodotus

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

Shah Rukh Khan

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Walter Scott

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

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

Orison Swett Marden

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

Thomas S. Monson

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Oliver Cromwell

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Camille Paglia

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

David A. Bednar

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Henry Drummond

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

David Hume

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Konrad Lorenz

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

Annie Lennox

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Max Lerner

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

John Buford

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

Lady Gregory

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Soren Kierkegaard

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

Mae West

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Jose Marti

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Chief Joseph

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

Lauren Bacall

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Phyllis Diller

Men are not born saints with special gifts and privileges. They fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, and as they conquer, the spirit of Jesus begins to shine through with more clarity.

Mother Angelica

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Jerry Seinfeld

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Tacitus

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Iris Murdoch

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Elayne Boosler

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

Xenophanes

Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.

Charlotte Rampling

Go to the depot here, now, and what will you see? A well-dressed colored lady, with her little children by her side, whom she has brought up intelligently and with refinement, as much so as white children, comes to the cars, and where is she shown to? Into the smoking car, where men are cursing, swearing, spitting on the floor.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

Waris Ahluwalia

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

Charles Evans Hughes

Grown men do not need leaders.

Edward Abbey

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

Men must know their limitations.

Clint Eastwood

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon

I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.

Iyanla Vanzant

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld