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Quotes About Men

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
~ John Donne
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
~ John Dryden
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
~ John Dryden
You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.
~ John Edgar Wideman
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
~ John F. Kennedy
The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.
~ John Gerard
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
~ John Milton
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
~ John Milton
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.
~ John Ruskin
Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us
~ John Taylor
Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.
~ John Taylor of Caroline
Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.
~ John Yudkin
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
~ Jose Marti
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
~ Joseph Addison
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
~ Joseph Joubert
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
~ Joseph Joubert
God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
~ Joseph Sobran
I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
~ Kabir Bedi
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
~ Karl Kraus
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.
~ Lady Gaga
Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.
~ Laozi
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
~ Larry McMurtry