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Quotes About Men

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
~ George Santayana
If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
~ George W. Melville
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'
~ Gloria Steinem
Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group theyre rather stupid.
~ Glynis Johns
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.
~ Gore Vidal
They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.
~ Greg Fitzsimmons
The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
~ Gregory Maguire
I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
~ H. G. Wells
Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
~ H. L. Mencken
There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.
~ H. Rider Haggard
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
~ Helen Rowland
Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men.
~ Henny Youngman
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
What governs men is the fear of truth.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
~ Henry Ford
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
~ Henry Miller
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
~ Henry Ward Beecher