Quotes about men
men masculine handle
A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away. Brenda Holloway
men spices toss
Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out. Breaux Greer
men perfect quests
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. Branford Marsalis
men ego faults
There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle. Brad Thor
men animalistic knows
I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around. Bradley Cooper
men bars old-man
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar. Bonnie Jo Campbell
men age actors
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. Bobby Darin
men hair body
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner. Barry Humphries
men way use
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk. Barry Gibb
men suffering able
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there. Barry Hannah
men liberty chiefs
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty. Barry Goldwater
men giving president
I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
men hands differences
[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power are left to their own devices. This is because of the corrupting influence of power, the natural tendency of men who possess some power to take unto themselves more power. The tendency leads eventually to the acquisition of all power - whether in the hands of one or many makes little difference to the freedom of those left on the outside.
men flying pilots
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
men slavery conservative
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
men order june
June Cleaver didn''t keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it. Barbara Billingsley
men
When men change, maybe Bond will change. Barbara Broccoli
men understanding purpose
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. Arthur Young
men garden rocks
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
men leather-jackets age
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. Arthur Smith
men ideas common-sense
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate. Arthur Schopenhauer
men becoming culture
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
men mind may
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
men people fancy
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
men earth ascending
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
men thinking strive
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
men tunes variation
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
men thinking expression
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.
men needs kind
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
men normal needs
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
men rocks ice
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
men essence two
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
men artist symphony
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.