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Quotes About Men

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
~ Herbert Hoover
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
~ Herman Melville
All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.
~ Hermann Hesse
So many men, so many opinions
~ Terence
So many men so many questions.
~ Terence
Men like a woman with a daring tongue. That's a double-entendre, which reminds me they also like a ménage à trois.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one of the greatest of those events is World War I – fought against Germany from 1914 till 1918. Everyone is in it together. Upper classes and lower classes, women as well as men. This 'mixing' has never happened before and it will change the way the classes look at each other
~ Terry Deary
The lie that women are as capable as men when it comes to warfighting is so inadequate and shameful that it defies common sense. Despite the tremendous liability of placing women in such situations, the supporters of this senseless agenda are incessant in their efforts. Such a liability is seen when a
~ Terry James
Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.
~ Terry Kay
I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
~ Terry McMillan
I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
~ Terry McMillan
Shepherds are not perfect men. Though God sets the bar for pastoral ministry necessarily high, he uses the poles of grace to support that bar.
~ Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Skill in advising others is easily attained by men; but to practise righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing.
~ The Hitopadesa
Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of men.
~ Theocritus
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
~ Theodor Adorno
On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.
~ Theodor Adorno
Die Mannsleute sind doch immer noch schlimmer als man denkt.
~ Theodor Fontane
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Folly is truth in the form which men are struck with as amid untruth they will not let truth go.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
At once more social and more self-reliant than their British counterparts, they were men whose dignity had not been destroyed by a culture of dependence.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
It is one thing for traditions to die out of themselves; it is quite another for them to be killed by men who think they know everything, by men whose vengeance extends even to the past, even to the dead.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Manifesto's depiction of the relations between men and women was grossly distorted. His rage was therefore—as is so much modern rage—entirely synthetic
~ Theodore Dalrymple