Quotes About Men

Why do we need our men to praise and validate us in order for us to feel accomplished?

Suitable guys are an endangered species

An army of intellectual men cannot solve the riddle created by an indecisive woman.

There are many youths, and some men, who most earnestly devote themselves to solitary studies, from the mere love of the pursuit.

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was... He says that more men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Some men expend all the fury of a twelvemonth in one red-hot paragraph of five minutes.

All sorts of men in one kind of world, you see. Dodge again! here comes Queequeg — all tattooing — looks like the signs of the Zodiac himself.

Wine has drowned more men than the sea.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Out where the grass grows high, and the horned cattle dream away the lazy afternoons, and men still fear the powers and principalities of the air—out there between the corn-rows he held his old puissance to the end.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

You can murder children and frail maidens that way, but not real men. He would wake up and start to defend himself. Besides, it was his birthday, and he would never forgive her if she tried to kill him on his sixty-fifth birthday.

How void of reason are men, said Seneca, to make distant evils present by reflections, and to take pains before death to lose all the joys of life.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men, but toward a system in which men are superfluous. Total power can be achieved and safeguarded only in a world of conditioned reflexes, of marionettes.

"One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men."

The air was thick with betrayal. No one could trust anyone else, and in that dismal atmosphere the men seemed to grow even duller, devolving into mechanical extensions of the machines they serviced.

I have always been taught… that every man is divinely called to his work, if that work is for the good of all men. His faithfulness or unfaithfulness to the call is revealed in the motives that prompt him to choose his field.