Quotes about men
men devil worst
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst. Elbert Hubbard
men example governing
Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
men giving kind
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
men ideas justice
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
men needs need-you
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
men too-much rich
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
men effort benefits
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
men wish doe
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
men creation masterpiece
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?
men paradise stills
If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
men reason
A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
men mediocrity he-man
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
men burden-of-proof should
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.
men arriving reason
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
men doe he-man
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
men telling-the-truth theology
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
men thinking
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
men lawyer protect
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
men giving volunteer
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
men giving letters
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
men games problem
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
men leisure enjoy
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. Eleanor Roosevelt
men littles little-things
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
men tricks wanted
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
men memorial eras
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.
men games politics
If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
men
Men have to be reminded that women exist.
men thinking views
We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.
men two enthusiasm
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss. Eduard Hanslick
men blood want
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed. Eduard Shevardnadze
mental-health illness accomplished
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have Edvard Munch
men people battle
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
men spinning-around air
The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them. Eduardo Galeano