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Quotes About Men

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.
~ Cathy Guisewite
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
~ Roland Allen
The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.
~ Rumi
In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords!
~ Samuel Daniel
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
~ Seneca the Younger
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
~ Seneca the Younger
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
~ Shelby Foote
Look, I promise I'm not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I'll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
~ St. Jerome
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.
~ Tom Ford
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
~ Will Durant
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
~ William Penn
Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
~ Harold Ramis
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
~ Heinrich Heine
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
~ Ilka Chase
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
~ Isaiah
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
~ J. C. Ryle
Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.
~ Jacob Bronowski
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
~ James Bryce
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
~ John Bunyan