Quotes about men
men long humanity
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. Andre Gide
men madness another-man
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
men thinking
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
men society method
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
men anxiety brain
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
men intelligent modest
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
men greatest-victory victory
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
men made depends
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
men stuff way
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. Amy Clampitt
men hair cracks
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any. Ann Richards
men rotten bad-woman
I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten. Ann Rule
men knows fortunate
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man. Ann Patchett
men blue clouds
From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.
men vaccines forget
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. Aneurin Bevan
men political suffering
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
men walking-away faces
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
men political politics
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
men symbolic-meaning mysterious
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. Ang Lee
men past civilization
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. Anatole France
men animal literature
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
men littles augustine
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
men giving mind
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
men age energy
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
men ice made
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
men long people
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
men choices doubt
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
men heartache curiosity
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
men justice prejudice
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
men two feelings
There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive. Anais Nin
men magic phrases
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
men faces fantasy
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
men humans human-beings
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
men enclosure one-woman
The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.