Quotes about men
men race brain
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race. Edward Abbey
men opera sopranos
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
men land sheep
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
men guru should
Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
men self fire
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.
men two desire
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways
men numbers america
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.
men snakes humanist
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
men finals critics
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
men sheep brave
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
men world facts
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
men jail giving
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
men lucky lucky-man
I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
men once-upon-a-time honor
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
men likes february
No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.
men blood revolution
Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.
men virtue ifs
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
men world good-enough
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
men circles wish
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles....
men differences delight
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
men
Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
men space might
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
men animal lovable
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
men enemy he-man
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
men numbers succeed
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
men levers littles
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
men empty
An empty man is full of himself.
men cities feet
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.
men people dangerous-man
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
men long dams
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.
men animal vanity
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
men hands feet
I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot. Eddie Redmayne
men artist forty
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. Aubrey Beardsley