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Quotes About Men

Privilege is the way men prime power, the world over.
~ Unknown
Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days, everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Only stories now, but I'll sound the Spear-Danes' song, hoarded for hungry times.
~ Unknown
How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.
~ Maria McCann
Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.
~ Maria McCann
some men warm themselves at others' sins.
~ Maria McCann
Men are wont to think of our England as a soft green land, nourished at the breast of many rivers;
~ Maria McCann
NEVER TRUST A MAN WHO DOESN'T COOK
~ Marianne Wiggins
offered him a scholarship to the graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, all expenses paid by the U.S. Department of State. The war in Europe was devouring gringos; American schools had been drained of young men.
~ Marie Arana
The hunt for spouses is an activity on a par with fox-hunting or hawking, though the weapons and dramatis personae differ. Just as grizzled old men know the habits of hares and quail, so do elegant society gossips know every titbit about the year's eligible men and women.
~ Marie Brennan
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
~ Marie de France
Blake sighed, shaking his head. "Abandon all logic, ye men who enter where women dwell.
~ Unknown
Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.
~ Unknown
When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth — that men are only equal — can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.
~ Marilyn French
All men have their FEARS. But those who face their fears with FAITH have COURAGE as well.
~ Thomas S. Monson
To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.
~ Sharon Stone
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
~ Georges Duhamel
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
~ Samuel Adams
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.
~ Stephen Marche
All men are equal before fish.
~ Herbert Hoover
Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.
~ Rita Rudner
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.
~ James Allen