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Quotes About Men

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
~ John Milton
[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.
~ John Wesley
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
~ Jonathan Swift
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
~ Kabir
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
~ Katie Price
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.
~ Lajos Kossuth
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
~ Leonard Cohen
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.
~ Claudia Schiffer
Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.
~ Confucius
Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
~ David Gemmell
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.
~ Don Marquis
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
~ Donatella Versace
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
~ Edmund Burke
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
~ Edward Bellamy
And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream - '" Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!"
~ Edward Lear
I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
~ Eugene O'Neill
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
~ Euripides
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld