Quotes About Men

There were giants in the earth in those days… mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men!

Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.

The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

Fight on, my merry men all;For why, my life is at an end.

Three wise men of GothamWent to sea in a bowl:And if the bowl had been stronger,My song had been longer.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the king's horsesAnd all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Rub-a-dub-dub,Three men in a tub,And who do you think they be?The butcher, the baker,The candlestick-maker;And all of them went to sea!

The King of France went up the hillWith forty thousand men;The King of France came down the hillAnd ne'er went up again.

On a standard-of-living approach it may be legitimate to set different poverty lines for men and women, on the grounds that women have on average smaller nutritional needs, and this was indeed the case with the US official poverty line in its early years. The poverty line for 1963 set by Mollie Orshansky for non-farmers under the age of sixty-five was $1,650 a year for a single man but only $1,525 for a single woman.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.

But Omeir felt something close to despair, and sensed that, even at his age, his feelings would not be welcome, that he should hide them even from his own grandfather. Why mourn, Grandfather would say, what men can do? There's something wrong with a child who sympathizes more with other beings than he does with men.

Different days pass verdict on different men, and only the last day a final verdict on all men, and consequently no day is to be trusted.

Maybe it's that Italy has become familiar enough that I can stop paying attention to it for a few hours a day. Or maybe it's just being back in the country, a place so much more similar to home, where men go for long walks in the hills and people wave to you when you drive past and the background noise is not engines but silence.

Pliny whispers in my ear, 'Different days pass verdict on different men and only the last day a final verdict on all men; and consequently no day is to be trusted.

I am saying rather that men did not behave as men are wont to do, in part because of the essential change in political bodies, where everyone senses that protection at all costs, rather than the good and bloody battle, is the rule of the day. As soon as someone says, "You want 200,000 people to die," the chance for a discussion is over, because the rejoinder, "You are speaking like a coward and an ass," is no longer possible.

government by three men did not promise stability.

AFTER PHILIPPI, NEARLY ALL THE men who had assassinated Julius Caesar were dead, and so was the Republic.

Officially, a legion had a strength of between four thousand and six thousand men

In 13 B.C., the state's two leading men returned to Rome, the princeps from Gaul, Agrippa from the eastern provinces

the 'c' word is more than that. It's used by sour, frustrated men, nearly always about women. It's a word full of misogyny – crudely offensive.