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Quotes About Men

Generations of American men and women have served our country in the Armed Forces and sacrificed to protect our freedoms.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
You know what men are like, they never really grow up, do they? Do they ever catch us up mentally? I don't think so.
~ Tess Daly
I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter.
~ Ryan Murphy
'Men with Guns' - the producer's cut did not have the artistic and intellectual merit I hoped for, although I am still very proud of the work.
~ Kari Skogland
On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
~ Val McDermid
Hard audiences tend to be when it's all men. It's when businesses have dos where they're at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They're men of a certain age - basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can't make these people laugh hysterically.
~ Michael McIntyre
There was a criticism of 'Milk' that I found truth in, which was that it was focused on gay white men.
~ Dustin Lance Black
For the great Gaels of Ireland," wrote G. K. Chesterton, Are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
~ Thomas Cahill
Caplan writes:   My study of personality psychology makes me one of the doubters. On the popular Myers-Briggs personality test, there is a huge Thinking-Feeling gap between men and women. For men, the breakdown is roughly 60% Thinking, 40% Feeling. For women, the breakdown is roughly 30% Thinking, 70% Feeling.
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting - so fanciful are men! - he hastened on...
~ Thomas Hardy
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.
~ Thomas Hardy
When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think.
~ Thomas Hardy
The world is as it used to be: "All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They do no more for Christés sake Than you who are helpless in such matters. "That this is not the judgment-hour For some of them's a blessed thing, For if it were they'd have to scour Hell's floor for so much threatening.... "Ha, ha. It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet (if indeed I ever do; for you are men, And rest eternal sorely need).
~ Thomas Hardy
This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely.
~ Thomas Hardy
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes because men and women associate not in their labors but in their pleasures merely.
~ Thomas Hardy
Perhaps, as with many men, their opportunities of observation were not so good as their opportunities of expression.
~ Thomas Hardy
He knew he should go to see her again, according to her invitation. Those earnest men he read of, the saints, whom Sue, with gentle irreverence, called his demi-gods, would have shunned such encounters if they doubted their own strength. But he could not. He might fast and pray during the whole interval, but the human was more powerful in him than the Divine.
~ Thomas Hardy
In justice to desponding men, it is as well to remember that the brighter endurance of women at these epochs — invaluable, sweet, angelic, as it is — owes more of its origin to a narrower vision that shuts out many of the leaden-eyed despairs in the van, than to a hopefulness intense enough to quell them.
~ Thomas Hardy
I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books
~ Thomas Hardy
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.
~ Thomas Hardy
To give too much room to the latent feeling which is rather common in these days among the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful men are fools, all remarkably unsuccessful men are geniuses.' 'Pretty
~ Thomas Hardy
Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings over-sadly tinged.
~ Thomas Hardy
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan—a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society; and the possibility of the favour gained being transitory had reference only to the future. He
~ Thomas Hardy
Shiloh isn't haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn't care.
~ Thomas Harris