Men Quotes
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
William Hazlitt
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What you call man is time.
Terence McKenna
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There were two kinds of men: strong men, who remained true to their internal compasses regardless of all else; and weak men who were easily misled and wound up cheating themselves of all they could be. He’d told Gabe he only wanted strong men.
Brenda Novak
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I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.
Maureen Dowd
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
William Penn
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The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.
William James
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
Thomas Carlyle
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Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
Carolyn Heilbrun
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!
Tom Lehrer
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
John Calvin
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We men are wretched things.
Homer
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As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
Brigid Schulte
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In the jungle, size is king. Women like big men. That's just evolution.
Mike Cernovich
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Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
William Ellery Channing
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How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
Helen Keller
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
Willem Dafoe
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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
George Will
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust
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When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
Ingrid Michaelson
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I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
Helen Keller
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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
Jane Austen