Men Quotes
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
Max Lerner
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Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.
Leonard Cohen
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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
David Deida
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
J. G. Holland
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
Halsey
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Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.
William Penn
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
Edmund Morgan
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid
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Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.
H. L. Mencken
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Victoria Woodhull
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These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
Margaret Atwood
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
Rafe Spall
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
Calvin Klein
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Saint Basil
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Camille Paglia
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Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
Lajos Kossuth
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Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
Henry David Thoreau
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies