Quotes About Men

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

New study reveals men like to cuddle. Another study reveals men will say anything to get into bed with a woman.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.