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Quotes About Men

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
~ Aldous Huxley
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
~ Bible
If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
~ Kate Christensen
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
~ Garry Shandling
I like a really natural looking body, so I'm not into muscles and looking like you just did 1,000 pull-ups and sit-ups and like you only eat lean turkey. That's not for me. I just like people to look like people, and so I think it's really attractive when men don't have perfect bodies.
~ Nikki Reed
I've always said golf can be a turn-off - all those middle-aged men in bad jumpers. I want to be a bit more of a character.
~ Ian Poulter
High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.
~ Rodney Stark
My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.
~ Henry Kissinger
'Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.
~ Johnny Galecki
'Dispatches' is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century and the most brilliant treatment of war and men I have ever read.
~ Sonny Mehta
Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
~ Kate Mulgrew
When men break up they want to remain friends. Why? Why can't they just get lost?
~ Rita Rudner
Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.
~ Steve Garvey
I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
~ Julie Christie
So I'm into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.
~ Mindy Kaling
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.
~ Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
~ Patrick Ness
Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.
~ Peter York
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.
~ George Pickett
What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.
~ Robert E. Lee
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
~ Michael Morpurgo
Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
~ George McGovern
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
~ Grantland Rice