Quotes About Men

Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.

The bungling, the mendacity and the cynicism of the men responsible both for the disaster and the attempt to cover it up could not be dismissed as a regrettable perversion of Soviet values: they were Soviet values, as the Soviet leader began to appreciate.

Pregnant women often don't make the connection between their babies and sex. Neither do men. The two are so different, it is like magic.

Riley:)...I just wasn't up to coping with the whims and foibles of men right now. Chocolate, coffee and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they> would never disappoint me.

the folly of men makes me seriously angry.

Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy.

Phryne had defences against almost any argument, but not against two pretty young men at her feet. Very decorative they were and she might have uses for them.

A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves...

And if I may give you a piece of advice: a clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves.…

If they but knew it, all men, some time or other, cherish the same feelings toward the abyss with me.

Well, you ever been to Nebraska before?" asked Arden. "I've flown over it a few times," Buster said, "I would imagine." For the rest of the ride to Buster's hotel, there was the all-encompassing sound of five men not talking, the radio broken and filled with static, the car's engine going just a little faster than it had before.

The apocalypse sounds like this-- black men breaking in to steal back the thing once stole from them.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Since history, war has always been the same. Old men talking, young men dying.

In exchange for the parcel of land, Smith promised copper and "gave" Parahunt a teenaged English boy named Henry Spelman to serve as a translator. With the deal closed, Smith ordered West to move into the Indian village with his men and then made his way back to the ship for his journey downriver to Jamestown.

As a young woman, when she had been beautiful and had worn her hair short and her clothes loose to conceal that fact, she had known all the signs of men and read them well enough that she had been successfully robbed only three times and raped once; but none of those had burned from her the hunger for empty spaces, strange cities, new oceans.

Of course, he had always been wise in the ways of cats, valuing them above entire races, many men, and most women.

Ah, men", I say. "A mystery" "Wrapped in sharp spikes," Seema continues. "And covered in chocolate," I finish Page 70

In Spanish culture in the sixteenth century, the ages between thirty and forty-five were considered the prime years for men, that is, those were the years in which a man was considered to be both mature and to have the most energy.

Miss Grant, I don't know where you got the idea that men don't have deep feelings, but that's wrong. Oh, we might be better at hiding them. But we get sad and scared and doubtful, the same as anybody else. I can tell you I cried lots of sowing tears when my uncle died after I came to Spiveyville.~Mack Cleveland

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

The men sat unbedding their rage, learning, as everyone does in this country, at one time or another, that old hatreds are endlessly retrievable.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Those who value peace of mind, assign everything to the course of Time as the cause, but practical men soon assuage their grief by revenge.