Men Quotes
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
Lloyd Alexander
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How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!
D. H. Lawrence
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All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.
John Polson
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
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Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
Peter Straub
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Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
Marianne Williamson
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Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
William Butler Yeats
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I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.
Jennifer Egan
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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.
D. H. Lawrence
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When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
Meher Baba
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I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.
Anouska Hempel
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
Epictetus
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It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.
N. K. Jemisin
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Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.
Freya Stark
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The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit.
Marc Guggenheim
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare
Catherynne M. Valente
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The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
Tad Williams
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer
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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.
Erica Jong
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
Thomas More
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How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.
F. E. Higgins
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I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.
Amanda Eliasch