Quotes about men
men ideals ideal-woman
A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get. Helen Rowland
men eternity intervals
Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.
men temptation cheerful
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
men shoes average
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
men forever annoying
Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.
men hands trying
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
men achieve poor
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
men thinking waiting
A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.
men married forget
A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.
men mirrors
Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.
men wife funny-marriage
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
men dental-work lasts
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
men literature littles
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
men literature good-times
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
men sick love-sick
Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
men good-woman good-man
A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
men fifty twenties
At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.
men maturity widows
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
men red flattering
I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer. Helen Mirren
men thinking age
As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
men alchemist would-be
In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.
men action instruments
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Heinrich Heine
men thinking hands
In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.
men genius publishers
No author is a man of genius to his publisher.
men rocks poverty
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
men skills church
I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.
men thinking air
First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda. Heather Locklear
men red-lipstick settling
You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.
men
I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do. Hilary Duff
men catholic mind
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that spirit was slowly, instinctively, working for the establishment of small property throughout Christendom. Hilaire Belloc
men healthy conflict
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
men expression llamas
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
men wind sailing
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.