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Quotes About Men

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
~ beecher henry ward iv
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
~ beecher henry ward v
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
~ beecher henry ward vii
The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.
~ beecher henry ward xii
What are called "fanatics" and "extremists" are only the men that God sends to make up the general average which the unfaithfulness of others lowers.
~ beecher henry ward xii
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
~ beecher henry ward xiii
Good men's prayers are carried by the angelic mail; but many men's prayers evidently go by the demoniac route. They are never so bad as after they have prayed.
~ beecher henry ward xiv
Men often abstain from the grosser vices as too coarse and common for their appetites, while the vices which are frosted and ornamented are served up to them as delicacies.
~ beecher henry ward xiv
There is but one resource for innocence among men or women, and that is an embargo upon all commerce of bad men.
~ beecher henry ward xv
Men never _make_ truths; they only recognize the value of this currency of God. They find truths, as men sometimes find bills, in the street, and only recognize the value of that which other persons have drawn.
~ beecher henry ward xvi
The long procession of men flickered before her like faces on cards quickly riffled—blurred, two-dimensional. Only their desire for her mattered.
~ Bel Kaufman
One sees so many kinds of men, one finds about one the relics of so many philosophies, one is astonished to meet, still surviving, so many illusions.
~ belloc hilaire iii
But risking a fair fight – not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of the 'don't hold me back' while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
That's how real men settle their differences, through reasoned discussion and a dispassionate analysis. He farted as I reached the inner door, a sign, I decided, of his respect. Alexander
~ Ben Aaronovitch
but a lot o' molls and a lot of sucker guys. Them? Say, they never learn no better. Tough guys ain't no different from soft guys, see? They all fall for the dames just as hard and just as worse. There's many a good guy in this place that's been gave a tumble by them, see?
~ Ben Hecht
it was clear to everyone at the table who had any experience with men and alcohol—especially men who had won international literary prizes—that he was not going to stop talking at any point in the meal.
~ Ben Lerner
It was beginning to dawn on me that most of the history of Paraguay revolved around white men chasing after other white men in the jungle, or else trying to turn the brown ones white.
~ Ben Macintyre
He preferred women to men, and horses to both.
~ Ben Macintyre
Allied casualty rates averaged 6,674 a day for the seventy-seven days of the Normandy campaign. Those numbers would have been far higher, had it not been for a small and most peculiar band of men and women fighting a secret battle.
~ Ben Macintyre
When men cough or talk into their own hands, they are praying to their own bones, hoping to change their minds about something.
~ Ben Marcus
But straw men are easier to knock down than real arguments.
~ Ben Shapiro
For leftists, the answer to domestic violence isn't to deal with any of the issues that could lead boys to become abusing men. The answer, instead, is to lecture Americans about the use of the word "sissy" — not because that solves the problem, but because it makes those on the left feel warm and fuzzy inside.
~ Ben Shapiro
We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied, nor will our successors understand the history of our time unless they fulfill these conditions.
~ Benedetto Croce
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
~ Benito Mussolini