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Quotes About Men

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.
~ Joyce Brothers
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
~ Joyce Brothers
I'm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn't care less about their opinion.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.
~ Kathy Lette
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
~ Khalil Gibran
The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
~ Leonard Cohen
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.
~ Roger Lancelyn Green
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?
~ Rumi
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
~ Saint Augustine
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
~ Sallust
The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
~ Samuel Smiles
Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.
~ Sandra Bernhard
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
~ Seneca the Younger
Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".
~ Sherry Argov
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
~ Sophocles
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
~ Sophocles
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
~ Stefan Zweig
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
~ Sydney J. Harris
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.
~ Temple Grandin
If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property
~ Theobald of Bec