Quotes About Men

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

I disliked the attitude of those who came up from the cities to hunt—their braggadocio, their faux machismo, the unpleasant transformative effect of guns and camouflage on otherwise unremarkable men, for in my experience it was generally men who hunted in this way.

Suddenly, it seemed as if David was surrounded by short, unhappy men muttering about "rights" and "liberties" and having enough of "this sort of thing.

drinking whisky in kitchens by candlelight, drinking with men who have failed and men who have yet to fail. He wishes

But the question that consumed him most was its nature, for he believed that men created gods as much, if not more, than gods created men. If this old god existed, it did so because there were men and women who permitted it to continue to exist through their beliefs. They fed it, and it, in turn, fed them.

Letting the task be master is a hard task for men, hardest of all for the angel's children, however distantly descended. But it could be learned: learned is the only way it could be learned, for I am a man. Far away and long ago the angels struggled in great anguish with the world, struggled unceasingly; but I would learn, yes, in the long engine summer of the world I would learn to live with it, I would.

Both men looked cadaverous and sinister as the single dim light hanging from the ceiling cast dark shadows across their features.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.

Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay; So all were lost, which in the ship were found, They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

In God 'tis glory: And when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

Every art that could inflame the passions and touch the interests of men has been essayed," Washington complained in early April 1788.

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

he asked who, and what manner of men, the Athenians were. And when he had been told, he called for his bow; and, having taken it, and placed an arrow on the string, he let the arrow fly towards heaven; and as he shot it into the air, he said, 'O Supreme God! grant me that I may avenge myself on the Athenians.' And when he had said this, he appointed one of his servants to say to him every day as he sat at meat, 'Sire, remember the Athenians.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

In our day the first interest of most men is business and after that sports; in medieval times the dominant interest was war and after that sports, but there was not too much difference since sports were warlike too.