Men Quotes

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.

Rita Mae Brown

Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.

Unknown

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Thomas Troward

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Benjamin Disraeli

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylo

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Machiavelli, The Prince

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

Sweet is revenge - Especially to women.

Lord Byron

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

C. C. Colton

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

H. L. Mencken

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Albert Einstein

Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.

Airplane

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

Richard Nixon

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Albert Einstein

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

Shakti Gawain

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.

Oliver Herford

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley