Quotes About Men

You set aggressive men on a course of unstructured competition, and they soon become desperate men in unscrupulous battle.

Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the groin. It was the first time in history that men's apparel was consciously designed to be more sexy than women's.

We wanted proper outback: a place where men were men and sheep were nervous.

This is comfortable and clean and familiar. Apart from a tendency among men of a certain age to wear knee-high socks with shorts, these people are just like you and me.

How fast a man's beard grows, for instance, is partly a function of how much he thinks about sex (because thinking about sex produces a testosterone surge).

The prostate, it must be said, produces seminal fluid throughout a man's adulthood and anxiety in his later years.

It is an extraordinary fact but a true one that there are thousands of men in Britain who will never need Viagra as long as steam trains are in operation.

Women are much better than men in tactile sensitivity with their fingers, but possibly only because they have smaller hands and, therefore, a denser network of receptors.

We were looking for the real outback where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase beware the fallacy of evil men.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this is only a pretence and a false image of love; for at bottom it is only hate.

Order. Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. 8

Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure of solitude is a thing incomprehensible. And it is in fact the greatest source of happiness in the condition of kings, that men try incessantly to divert them, and to procure for them all kinds of pleasures.

Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.

The ordinary life of men is like that of saints. They all seek satisfaction, and differ only according to the object in which they locate it.

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Ni el esplendor del cadencioso tigre Ni del jaguar los signos prefijados Ni del gato el sigilo. De la tribu Es el menos felino, pero siempre Ha encendido los sueños de los hombres

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

In some men compassion for a woman goes beyond all conceivable limits. Their responsiveness places her in unrealizable positions, not to be found in the world, existing only in imagination, and on account of her they are jealous of the surrounding air, of the laws of nature, of the millennia that went by before her.

Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly.

The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.