Quotes About Men

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

My mother did what many men do. She left.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Music has shaped men's fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.