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Quotes About Men

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.15
~ Joseph Addison
Both men and angels were given the highest gift in the universe, that of free will. We have the power of choice. Evil resides within the problem of choice. It is free will that convicts us. We are guilty of being evil because we can choose good. Free will is the very foundation of love, and the cornerstone of evil.
~ Joseph B. Lumpkin
They still had hope, for hope in the heart of men lives on lean pasture.
~ Joseph Bédier
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
~ Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
~ Joseph Conrad
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
~ Joseph de Maistre
There is a sure rule for judging books just as there is for judging men: it is enough to know by whom they are loved, and by whom they are hated.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Cowardice and courage are just labels—words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That
~ Joseph Delaney
We're a compulsive but amiable crew, those of us who feel, or have felt, the compulsion to re-record the bright thoughts of other men and women.
~ Joseph Epstein
That's horse country, of course, where women do their shopping in jodhpurs or jeans with holes at the knees and men walk around in flip-flops and everyone gets Lyme disease.
~ Joseph Finder
When we talk about birth control and abortion, we're talking about burdens that weigh heaviest on women, but all us folks with tallywhackers are involved, too. We kept our peckers in our pants ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the abortion debate would be over.
~ Joseph Flynn
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
~ Joseph Heller
Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.
~ Joseph Joubert
He wondered if most men didn't reach toward love faster than they truly understood it.
~ Joseph Monninger
The belief that wickedness is the province of monsters, not men, is consoling to those who are young. [Bram Stoker]
~ Joseph O'Connor
Gradually she got used to seeing men come and go: a race of childish giants, resembling clumsy mammoth insects, fleeting and yet weighty; an army of awkward fools who tried to flutter with leaden wings; warriors who believed that they had conquered when they were despised, that they possessed when they were ridiculed, that they had enjoyed when they had barely tasted; a barbaric horde, for whom she nevertheless waited lifelong.
~ Joseph Roth
In no time, the platoon were on their feet in front of him, formed up into two ranks, and it struck him suddenly, and probably for the first time in his military career, that these men with their drilled precision were dead parts of dead machines that didn't produce anything.
~ Joseph Roth
There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims.
~ Erin Pizzey
In the minds of women, fatherhood used to be considered a part-time job. It was something men did at the end of the day between parking the car for the night and going to bed.
~ Erma Bombeck
Men who have a thirty-six-televised-football-games-a-week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.
~ Erma Bombeck
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
~ Erma Bombeck
All thinking men are atheists.
~ Ernest Hemingway
At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o' dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An' fortunately before the crisis is over the hull thing is sure set right, and the men is where they oughter be.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton