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Quotes About Men

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.
~ Stephen Colbert
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
~ Susan Stebbing
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.
~ Tim Sandlin
The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.
~ Timothy Thomas Fortune
Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
~ Tom Wicker
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
~ Toni Morrison
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
~ Vernon Howard
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
~ Victor Hugo
Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
~ Warren Farrell
To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.
~ William Bell
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.
~ William Henry Irwin
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
~ William Shakespeare
For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.
~ William Shakespeare
Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
~ William Shakespeare
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.
~ Helen Dunmore
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
~ Herman Wouk
There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.
~ Hilton Als
If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.
~ Hosea Ballou