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Quotes About Men

Las manos de los hombres no saben usar máscaras. Los hombres ponen duras las facciones hasta para sentirse guapos, pero las manos siempre los delatan. Cuando unas manos de hombre no te dicen nada, lo más probable es que el fulano sea un pendejito sin carácter.
~ Xavier Velasco
Honor appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labor, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it.
~ Xenophon
The earth also kindly teaches men justice, at least such as are able to learn; for it is those who treat her best that she recompenses with the most numerous benefits.
~ xenophon ii
While interviewing at the Hunan women's prison:) 'I have lived with several men, and let them amuse themselves with me. Because of that, I have been sent to two labour reeducation camps and been sentenced to prison twice. (...) When people curse me for having no shame, I don't get angry. All the Chinese care about is "face", but they don't understand how their faces are linked to the rest of their bodies.
~ Xinran
Xinran, do you know that it is the really bad women who are the lucky ones? I believe the saying "Money makes men bad; badness makes women money.
~ Xinran
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
~ Xun Zi
The three of us, each paralyzed in his own silence, contemplate the horizon, which the dawn lights up with a thousand fires; and each of us knows for certain that the rising sun of this day, like all those that have gone before it, will be incapable of bringing sufficient light into the hearts of men.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Ci sono uomini indolenti, sono fatti così, altri che non vogliono perdere un solo attimo di tempo, e si danno da fare, che differenza c'è? Gli uomini si agitano fino a quando non muoiono.
~ Yasmina Reza
Men needed the test of competition to find their better selves, Lombardi insisted, whether it was in sports, politics or business.
~ David Maraniss
The press has given up saying so but these two men are denouncing what they once supported: a price on carbon and an emissions trading scheme.
~ David Marr
Men tend to be more orthodox in belief. Their concern for the rules keeps a congregation from drifting toward mushy moral relativism.
~ David Murrow
Western men are openly hostile toward the Christian faith, I believe most are simply ambivalent toward it. What's more troubling, the men who do go to church seem to become more passive and detached by the
~ David Murrow
Here's a mind bender: What if we canceled the children's ministry and put that effort into building up the men of the church? I firmly believe that such an approach would, in the long run, win more youth to Christ. It would also save more marriages and produce happier women. Children's ministry and youth ministry are good things—but spiritually healthy male role models are the best thing.
~ David Murrow
Many have called men back to church. Now it's time to call the church back to men.
~ David Murrow
We both know men don't come to the Dismal Swamp for head transplants on a regular basis, and, even though the Weekly World News is my Bible, I swear on Bat Boy's honor I've never read of any head transplant that took. Barring
~ David Niall Wilson
Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
~ David O. McKay
The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge
~ David Pietrusza
Perhaps," she went on, "the biggest lesson of all is that people need to learn to put their faith in God and not in the men who have built institutions around faith or even in the institutions themselves.
~ David R. Johnson
In all likelihood the diabetes accounted for Cam still being single at 37. Most unmarried men at his age either had commitment issues, were ninnies or were queer. Cam's only issue seemed to be his diabetes.
~ David S. Brody
He grinned back at her as she closed the door. Men were easy. Even those destined for greatness. Give them beer and sex, and they were happy.
~ David S. Brody
In ancient times only women could do math; men were thought too stupid. That's why the root for the word math is the same as for mother—they both come from the name of the Egyptian goddess, Maat. Mathematics literally means 'mother wisdom.
~ David S. Brody
he was mainly a romantic comrade who had a series of intense relationships with young men, most of whom went on to get married and have children. Whatever the nature of his physical relationships with them, most of the passages about same-sex love in his poems were not out of keeping with then-current theories and practices that underscored the healthiness of such love.
~ David S. Reynolds
This is CID homicide, mister, and neither heat nor rain nor gloom of night will stay these men from their rendezvous with callousness. Cruel jokes? The cruelest. Sick humor? The sickest. And, you ask, how can they possibly do it? Volume. That's right, volume. They won't be outsold, they won't be undersold; they will solve no crime before its time.
~ David Simon
As Sir Bernard Crick puts it, "No state has the capacity to ensure that men are happy; but all states have the capacity to ensure that men are unhappy.
~ David T. Koyzis