Men Quotes
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Constancy in a man is rare.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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Money is what makes a man act funny.
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.
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the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
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I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
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The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
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The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.
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The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.
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I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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What you call man is time.
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Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.
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The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.
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There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.
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When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called "self-interestedness". This was not a portrait of man "warts and all". It was all wart - except that the dominating attribute was not considered a blemish.
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All men are difficult.
