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Quotes About Men

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.
~ Ralph Adams Cram
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
~ Ralph Chaplin
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.
~ Raymond E. Feist
... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.
~ Rene Dubos
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
~ Rex Stout
Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.
~ Richard Jeni
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
~ Richard Steele
The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest
~ Richard Steele
When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
~ Richard Whately
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
~ Richard Whately
I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere.
~ Richelle Mead
(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.
~ Richelle Mead
To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.
~ Rick Yancey
MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.
~ Ridley Pearson
Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.
~ Rita Rudner
Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.
~ Rita Rudner