Quotes about men
men yield reason
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them. William Shakespeare
men might exceed
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
men use desert
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
men trusted
Let no such man be trusted.
men enemy devil
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
men doors athens
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
men flattery praise
I will praise any man that will praise me.
men venice church
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
men dumb humanity
It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big Kurt Vonnegut
men checkerboard bokonon
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
men hands luck
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
men earth helping
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
men yes-and-no answers
One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.
men white-man america
Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.
men thinking people
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
men practice giving
We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.
men blood people
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
mental-illness illness treats
Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
men poet human-life
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. Jose Ortega y Gasset
men repentance-and-forgiveness faults
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle
men thinking weakness
The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly. Madeleine Albright
men america united-states
I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
men thinking way
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
men class desire
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.
men rooms world
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
men people crowns
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
men world mediocre
There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.
men color clothes
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
men proof creatures
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. Georg C. Lichtenberg
men play venice
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
men rejection abuse
O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
men cracks world
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
men may courtesy
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.