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Quotes About Men

Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord...
~ Simon Van Booy
was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to be a portrait.
~ Simon Winchester
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In the state he's in, my child, your love is of no use to him—the whole world might love him and to him it would be of no use. Alas, if only men could love not with half their heart but with the whole heart God has given us, then no one would deserve to die. But as you see, no one is immortal, and that is how the world goes around.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
~ Sir Arthur Eddington
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~ Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death"
But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you the social reformer see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.
~ Sir Isaiah Berlin
OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.
~ Sir Issac Newton
There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking and swearing, any other than braying?
~ Sir Roger L'Estrange
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
~ Sir Thomas More
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
~ Sir Thomas More
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Sir Walter Scott
The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother and her evil vagina disappears.
~ Siri Hustvedt
With Stephen, I had become a sour, witless bore. With others, I could be light. Men I cared nothing about called me, and every once in a while, I accepted an invitation. On them my indifference worked like an aphrodisiac, Because I didn't want anything, I felt free an jabbered away spinning out all kinds of silliness that seemed only to augment their desire.
~ Siri Hustvedt
It marks the moment when a meandering conversation between two men took an irrevocable turn toward friendship.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Neither of these staring experiences was erotic for me, but they may have been for the two young men who did the staring. Who I was for either of them remains a mystery to me, a blank filled with my own dread.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with jackets and scarves. Anybody who gets his clothes at All Saints, that's my guy.
~ Ashley Benson
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
~ H. L. Mencken
the confidence of ten mediocre men.
~ Maureen Johnson
With the passing of its last marcher, Rube Marquard, the parade vanished into the mists of time, leaving in its wake only memories of the men and deeds gone by.
~ Maury Klein
I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.
~ Max Barry
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes—possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her.
~ Max Beerbohm