Quotes about men
men tools
Men have become the tools of their trade. Henry David Thoreau
men
Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended. Michael Michele
men weigh
Men do not weigh the stalk for that it was,When once they find her flower, her glory, pass. Samuel Daniel
men understand women
Men should try to understand women, and women should try to understand men. Sathya Baba
men path power twice
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power Gloria Steinem
men might seem
Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none! William Shakespeare
men women
Men often still expect women to be under their thumb. Guy Pearce
men women
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. John Updike
men average liberty
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.... Franklin D. Roosevelt
men time
I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time. Karen Armstrong
mention middle students
We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East. Don Thompson
men giving debt
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. Simone Weil
men regulation habit
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole. Jane Addams
men thinking issues
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history. Jane Addams
men hands way
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward. Jane Addams
men realizing he-man
No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most. Jane Addams
men rights republic
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. Jane Addams
men thinking people
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow. Jane Austen
men admiration pride-and-prejudice-pride
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. Jane Austen
men imagine ready
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. Jane Austen
men thinking giving
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. Jane Austen
men news paper
Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on. Jane Austen
men hands offending
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough. Jane Austen
men world offers
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! Jane Austen
men forever finals
How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation. Jane Austen
men moderation should
That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue. Jane Austen
men body care
Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to. Jane Austen
men safety risk
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated. Jane Austen
men body world
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. Jane Austen
men ends fortnight
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. Jane Austen
men understanding mind
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance. Jane Austen
men doubt emma
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. Jane Austen
men pretty-woman world
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Jane Austen