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Quotes About Men

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
~ Charles Kingsley
Shermy: Men are better than women! Patty: They are not!! Shermy: Washington was a man! Jefferson was a man! Lincoln was a man! Patty: Your mother is a woman!! Shermy: You got me!
~ Charles M. Schulz
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
~ Charles M. Schwab
The responsibilities of marriage induce young men to settle down, focus, and get to work.
~ Charles Murray
As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
~ Charles Portis
Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
Time—the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open. They love to gaze into our faces and hearken to our discourse. It's because the very first men were lizards. If you don't believe me, go grab one by the tail and see it come right off.
~ Charles Simic
My mother had said to me afterward, "Your father is a fool." When I asked her why, she'd shrugged. "Men generally are," she'd retorted, and changed the subject.
~ Charles Todd
Millions more are addicted to Internet pornography, which has led to a horrific increase in the sexual exploitation of children and attacks on young girls naive enough to arrange meetings with men
~ Charles W. Colson
Je n'ai pas besoin d'être réconcilié avec Dieu, mon conflit est avec les hommes.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
~ Charlie Chaplin
You have the love of humanity in your hearts. In the seventeenth chapter of saint Luke it is written the kingdom of god is in men. Not in one man nor a group of men but in all men. In you
~ Charlie Chaplin
Men were men. They all wanted beauty. Such shallow, fickle, heartless creatures.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women—why, they would be no obstacles at all. Jeff, with his gentle romantic old-fashioned notions of women as clinging vines. Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women—those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation. The latter as a large class, but negligible—he had never thought about them at all.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Only women there—and children," Jeff urged excitedly. "But they look—why, this is a CIVILIZED country!" I protested. "There must be men.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em– nor God– nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better.
~ Chelsea Handler
It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.
~ Cherie Priest
I have been overlooked many times by men—including godly Christian men—because I don't fit a physical profile.
~ Cheryl McKay
I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.
~ Cheryl Tiegs
Allah is always merciful to men. It must be that he knows men are not as strong as women.
~ Chet Williamson
Men are interesting specimens," Althea said. "They never cease to come up with ways to screw things up.
~ Chet Williamson