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Quotes About Men

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
~ Unknown
It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Shall we go to Bethlehem, men? Or shall we DANCE
~ Dave Barry
born and brewed in the U.S.A.," and the men who drink it are American men, the kind of men who aren't afraid to perspire freely and shake a man's hand. That's mainly what happens in Miller commercials: Burly American men go around, drenched in perspiration, shaking each other's hands in a violent and patriotic fashion.
~ Dave Barry
Existing, period – that is what drives men to irrational acts.
~ Dave Eggers
The desert wind was strong, and the dust came over the street like fog. Still, two men were sweeping the road.
~ Dave Eggers
If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.
~ Dave Hunt
The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. —Capt. J. A. Hatfield
~ David Allen
It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population.
~ David Baldacci
tightly and a vein throbbed at his temple. The two guards led Rogers down a long hallway. On each side were barred cell doors. The men behind them had been talking, but when Rogers came into view they abruptly stopped. The prisoners
~ David Baldacci
Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.
~ David Baldacci
On the phone Clarisse had said that some of the mobster descendants could be men or women. That was the clue Gibson thought she had unwittingly let slip.
~ David Baldacci
Some things never change," said Abby wearily. "Boys never grow up, they just get bigger with more hair and people start calling them men.
~ David Baldacci
And in the famous picture of the 1776 crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night, two men depicted at the front of the boat include Prince Whipple and Oliver Cromwell – two black patriots who served with George Washington and other American generals during the Revolution.
~ David Barton
Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin the world.
~ David Brin
All over the galaxy, men with the best gifts of Science and no skills but those of murder looked for patrons who would hire them to bring down civilization. Business was good.
~ David Drake
Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.
~ David Eddings
The Orb is not of itself evil. Evil is a thing that lies only in the hearts and minds of men--and of Gods, also. --Aldur
~ David Eddings
The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call "philosophy" - most of which is pure nonsense.
~ David Eddings
By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy.
~ David Eddings
Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.
~ David Eddings
I can remember hearing one middle-aged man who sat nearby saying 'Simmer down, boyo' to another older man seated kitty-corner to me across the doorway to one of the hallways extending out from the waiting area, except when I looked up from the book both these men were staring straight ahead, expressionless, with no sign of anyone needing to 'simmer down' in any conceivable way.
~ David Foster Wallace
I acknowledge that I could never convey just what was so dreadful about this tableau of a bright, utterly silent room full of men immersed in work. It was the type of nightmare whose terror is less about what you see than about the feeling you have in your chest and stomach about what you're seeing.
~ David Foster Wallace