Men Quotes
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
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There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.
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Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
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I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.
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They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
