Men Quotes

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Bad men are full of repentance.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.