Men Quotes
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.
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In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children.
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A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
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One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
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I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
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Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.
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Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.
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Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.
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I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.
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Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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Educated men - 'civilized,' as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
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O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
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Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
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I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.
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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
