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Quotes About Men

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.
~ Earle Birney
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
~ Edmund Burke
It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
~ Edward Young
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
~ Elbert Hubbard
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
~ Frances Lear
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.
~ Fred Reed
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
~ Gelett Burgess
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.
~ Graeme Simsion
By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
~ H. G. Wells
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
~ H. G. Wells
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
~ Samuel Johnson
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina