Quotes about men
men grace enemy
To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies. William Shakespeare
men faults bags
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
men faults
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
men talking action
I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
men rogues found
There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.
men may affair
But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
men devil made
The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
men water mind
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.
men mind golden
Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
men shapes bears
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.
men age half
Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
men gold purses
Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.
men mutiny obstacles
Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.
men
I don't think men were meant to be interviewed. Leos Carax
men diaries delight
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us. Agnes Repplier
men feminist suffering
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
men hands desire
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
men missing rejection
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Abba Eban
men missing suffering
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
men waiting initiative
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
men jewelry
I don't wear jewelry, as a man. Alan Tudyk
men intellectual may
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. Alan Turing
men discipline machines
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
men faces ageing
I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I. Alan Ladd
men bars beast
It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free. Alan Keyes
men ideas different
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea. Charlotte Bronte
men worry mind
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
men littles would-be
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed....
men agony gold
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.
men
I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.
men long-ago males
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published
men judging judge-me
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.
men names evil
If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey. Now don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare and Byron. Both these were great men, and their works are like themselves. You will know how to choose the good and avoid the evil; the finest passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting, you will never wish to read them over twice.