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Quotes About Men

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
~ Henry Iba
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
~ C. S. Lewis
This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.
~ Lucien Febvre
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
~ Sam Houston
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
~ Ethel Waters
He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
~ Patrick Süskind
My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
~ Iman Abdulmajid
Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men… Some of the best conversations I've ever had with men have been over a cigar.
~ James Belushi
Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.
~ Janet Evanovich
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
~ John Milton
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
~ Karl Marx
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
~ Livy
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.
~ Michael Baisden
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
~ Moses Mendelssohn
I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.
~ Paul Krugman
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
~ Oscar Wilde
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.
~ Richelle Mead
They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.
~ Rodney Dangerfield