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Quotes About Men

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
~ Alanis Morissette
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!
~ Albert Einstein
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
~ Albert Einstein
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
~ Aristotle
The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.
~ Artemas Ward
Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
~ Austin O'Malley
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.
~ Austin O'Malley
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
~ Ayn Rand
The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
~ Ayn Rand
...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.
~ Ayn Rand
Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.
~ Ayn Rand
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
~ Barbara Mertz
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.
~ Blanche Willis Howard
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
~ Carl Jung
I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.
~ Roberto Cavalli
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
~ Samuel Johnson
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
~ Sergio Leone
Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.
~ Sidney Buchman
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
~ Sonia Johnson
The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.
~ Sophie Swetchine