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Quotes About Men

Elise, you're taking this too seriously. We're men. If we have a problem, we punch one another. It's just how we handle things.
~ K.M. Shea, The Wild Swans
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.
~ Paul Washer
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour. The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious...
~ Michael Billig
It was then that Max, who had never before in all this time considered the matter, realized that all men, no matter what their estate, were in possession of shining immortal souls.
~ Michael Chabon
The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality.
~ Michael Chabon
bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time.
~ Michael Chabon
Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill at ease with each other.
~ Michael Chabon
Litvak knew that charisma was a real if indefinable quality, a chemical fire that certain half-fortunate men gave off. Like any fire or talent, it was amoral, unconnected to goodness or wickedness, power or usefulness or strength.
~ Michael Chabon
Irv had rediscovered, as surprisingly few men do, that the secret to perfect male happiness is a well-equipped clubhouse.
~ Michael Chabon
There was something deeply affecting about that. Something unfair that went beyond the general unfairness of death at the hands of another. She wondered how men would live if they knew that in every moment of their lives, their size and nature made them vulnerable to the opposite sex.
~ Michael Connelly
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
~ Michael Connelly
Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.
~ Michael Crichton
Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.
~ Michael Crichton
A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.
~ Michael Crichton
He's going to contact his fellow red men," Isaac muttered, "and tell them where to find some nice white scalps.
~ Michael Crichton
Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.
~ Michael Crichton
I admit it - there was a streak of sadism in my lusts. There was the taint of vanity. I choose ordinary men who would not refuse; who would feel lucky to have me. I did not thrill to the sight of their flesh - which was either bulky or scrawny but always abashed and grateful - so much as I did to the fact of their capture.
~ Michael Cunningham
Nulla dà maggior potere sugli uomini che la menzogna. Perché gli uomini, figliolo, vivono di idee. E quelle si possono guidare come si vuole.
~ Michael Ende
Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women — as well as with other men. Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.
~ Michael Kimmel
The coroner obviously hadn't even considered the possibility that she was a trained surgeon. "Men like that always underestimate me," she said. "They think my spirit animal is a bunny. And it's a fucking dragon.
~ Michael Lewis
people Trump had sent into the Department of Agriculture were white men in their twenties.
~ Michael Lewis
We are wary of you, Elric. Even if we allowed you to lead us again you would take your own doomed path and us with you. There is no future here for myself and my men.
~ Michael Moorcock