Quotes About Men

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?

Just goes to show that if it has tires or testicles, it's bound to cause you trouble.

The power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable.

The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Great men may make great mistakes;

Men seem inclined to react to a problem either by putting forward some theory and clinging to it as long as they can (if it is erroneous they may even perish with it rather than give it up), or by fighting against such a theory, once they have seen its weakness.

But the soldiers would have gladly given up their beds to a woman." "Yes, and I hate them for it." She pushed him away. "It's the arrogance of men that leads them to sacrifice themselves. Not real consideration.

They flicked the reins and were carried far ahead of the men, with that violent female daring which is so far from manly valor.

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind. Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you.

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders.

The reality of life with children is that there is rarely enough privacy, energy or time for the rampant lust couples feel they ought to be having, and men often feel sidelined.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Nor am I saying that English conversation codes do not allow men to express emotion. English males are allowed to express emotion. Well they are allowed to express some emotions. Three, to be precise: surprise, providing it is conveyed by expletives; anger, generally communicated in the same manner; and elation/triumph, which again involves shouting and swearing. It can thus sometimes be rather hard to tell exactly which of these three permitted emotions an Englishman is attempting to express.

And beauty has a quality all of its own that seems supreme; that seems above mere men with slaving ships and pistols...

Maybe all that was left after the war were damaged men.

Leaving?" she squeaked, bemused, as Max opened her wardrobe. "You're abducting me?" "Eloping. Eloping involves hurried packing. Abducting involves masked men and a burlap sack.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.'19

For medieval women as well as men literary productivity goes hand in hand with the opportunity for education, at least a modicum of scholarly idleness, access to materials needed for work, some financial independence, patronage in social, religious, or financial form (...) With women writers, an added prerequisite often entails the freedom from repeated pregnancies and childbearing. [Introduction]

Men are, fortunately, so foolish that they can be proud of a curse so long as it is a family one.