Quotes about men
men improvement improving
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others. Charles Dickens
men innocent-man may
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
men perfection great-expectations
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
men society faults
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
men listening wish
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
men listening doe
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
men years people
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus Chi McBride
men tolerance democracy
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal. Chester Himes
men inevitability-of-death purpose
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
men political president
Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another. Chester A. Arthur
men numbers dating
When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything. Cheryl Strayed
men battle stories
Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.
men brave
Men are never brave, are they? Cherie Blair
men vices timing
Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa. Cherie Lunghi
men people might
People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.
men needs felt
I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.
men thinking tasks
Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not. Cher
men order ends
It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.
men good-kisser ifs
If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-.
men supportive more-time
Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.
men able mystery
Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.
men trying way
When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.
men years half
My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.
men acknowledge comment
I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod. Charlotte Bunch
men law people
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life. Charlotte Perkins Gilman