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Quotes About Men

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
~ Washington Irving
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
~ Washington Irving
We live under a government of men—and morning newspapers.
~ Wendell Phillips
The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
~ Wendell Phillips
It was perfectly instinctive. I knew if I said I was a dancer he'd have made certain assumptions. I've been receiving this response more and more from men. They look me up and down as if they're looking straight through my clothes and it makes my heart beat with rage.
~ Wendy Buonaventura
Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You're trying to read the destinations, You haven't much time to decide. If you make a mistake, there is no turning back. Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by And the minutes, the hours, the days.
~ Wendy Cope
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
~ Wendy Cope
Pornography is the explicit artistic depiction of men and/or women as sexual beings.' This is not merely a working definition. It is a definition I propose as a new and neutral starting point for a more fruitful discussion of pornography.
~ Wendy McElroy
The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.
~ Wendy Shalit
she hated that the dress would give the network an opportunity to deduct more IQ points, though why people seemed to think large breasts destroyed gray matter, she didn't know. Especially when it was clear that men often thought with their penises and bypassed their brains altogether.
~ Wendy Wax
They lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.
~ WH Auden
War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young
~ Wilbur Smith, River God
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
~ Wilfred Grenfell
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed, — knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
~ Wilfred Owen
For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.
~ Wilfred Owen
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
~ Wilkie Collins
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
~ Will Durant
In another paper, titled "Boys Will Be Boys," they showed that men acted on their useless ideas significantly more often than women, and that as a result women achieved better investment results than men.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
~ Daniel Klein
A man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.
~ Daniel Klein
Shamron knew time could be hard on Russian men. they tended to age in the blink of an eye — young and virile one minute, wrinkled paper the next.
~ Daniel Silva
the world was not a dangerous place spinning rapidly out of control; it was a problem to be managed by men and women of competence and training.
~ Daniel Silva
For Rebecca, the world was not a dangerous place spinning rapidly out of control; it was a problem to be managed by men and women of competence and training.
~ Daniel Silva