Men Quotes

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

We are the women men warned us about.

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.