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Quotes About Men

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.
~ Margaret of Valois
The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
~ Mark Twain
Responsiblity is the great developer of men.
~ Mary Parker Follett
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
~ Maya Angelou
Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
~ Molly Ivins
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
~ Neil LaBute
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.
~ Paul Shepard
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
~ Paulo Freire
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
~ Philip Emeagwali
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
~ Plutarch
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
~ Plutarch
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.
~ Oliver Ellsworth
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
~ Ouida
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~ Ovid
Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
~ Ralph Cudworth
Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
~ Rene Dubos
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
~ Richard Hovey