Quotes about men
men rubbish months
Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face. D. H. Lawrence
men jewels wire
We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
men beard neckties
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
men example subtle
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.
men hands alive
But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.
men australia perfection
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
men fire house
A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.
men white-man america
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.
men weak-man people
Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
men class males
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species
men want sticks
With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.
men passing-away might
Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.
men sensitive know-me
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
men artist ordinary
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
men sitting radio
For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
men religion together
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
men animal world
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
men feet giving
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
men perfection can-do
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
men glowing hands
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
men epic law
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat. Cristina Saralegui
men wife lasts
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife. Crystal Eastman
men practice brotherhood
The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood. Conrad Hilton
men mercy-of-god effort
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.
men office done
As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office. Conrad Aiken
men dust magnificence
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?
men umbrella old-man
Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!
men support-you america
I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform. Clint Black
men culinary palate
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. Clifton Fadiman
men luck preparation
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
men limits knows
A man's just gotta know his limits Clint Eastwood
men
The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do.
men facts prejudice
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.