Quotes About Men

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the truth ; that, being so short-sighted, they do not reach beyond the heavens and the stars, to contemplate God Himself.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret; it is difficult for ladies to keep it long, and I know even in this matter a good number of men who are women.

Kings make men as they do pieces of money; they put what value they please on them, and we are compelled to receive them according to the value put on them, and not according to their true worth.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

Only great men have great faults.

The gratitude of most men is only a secret desire to receive more favours.

Somos todos miseráveis e devastados, mas poucos homens são capazes de encarar o próprio abismo.

He was a free thinker, and had little faith in God, although his name was constantly on his lips. He had lived too long, and mixed too much with men, to believe that God meddles much with the affairs of this world; on the other hand, he had a strong belief in the devil, of whom he stood in great fear.

It was the most moving experience of my life," he wrote, "and the knowledge of what the ambulances contained made it still more poignant." It was with that episode in mind that he concluded his post mortem: "The results attained were made possible only by the superlative quality of American officers, American men and American equipment. No country can stand against such an army.

and Umétsu remembered that goblins were wont to assume feminine shapes after dark, in order to deceive and destroy men.

If I was a woman in Russia I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly.

I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is. Look at you. You are a lord of ashes, a lord of char. You are filthy with your victory. Enjoy it, Joram, for you will never know another. You are lord of a country of ghosts, and that is all that you will ever be.

Las almas muertas solo sueñan con la muerte —dijo el resucitador al emperador—. Los sueños insignificantes son para los hombres insginificantes. La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos.

Dead souls dream only of death... Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is. Look at you. You are a lord of ashes, a lord of char. You are filthy with your victory.

Los sueños insignificantes son para los hombres insignificantes. La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos. La vida te domina, o la muerte." —Brimstone.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.

Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. "No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.