Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas CarlyleMen rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo MachiavelliMen are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise PascalI like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.
Angelina JolieIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiCertainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis BaconMen are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William ShakespearePeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleA businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.
Alice WalkerWhat’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerA chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
Kurt VonnegutNothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
PlatoMen ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliI don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
Brian EnoThe vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous HuxleyI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
Kanye WestIn the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMost men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Charles DickensMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand RussellI read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.
Kevin HartMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo MachiavelliAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerMen’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl MarxFor most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
Christopher HitchensI am not a fan of books.
Kanye WestI hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.
Abby Lee MillerGold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham LincolnOur modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.
Clint EastwoodOften people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalWars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. PattonEven as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
Matthew McConaugheySome men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore RooseveltIf women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard ShawFor a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice WalkerYou don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
Kendrick LamarAll men hate the nagging.
Kevin HartI wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
Maya AngelouI have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.
Jerry SeinfeldThe pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Narendra ModiIf you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.
Kanye WestThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous HuxleyAs a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Julius CaesarWhy do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny YoungmanI think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.
Kevin HartStudy men, not historians.
Harry S. TrumanPeople have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
Bob UeckerPeople have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice WalkerMen show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!
Charles SpurgeonWisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
ConfuciusThe men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy GrahamIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo MachiavelliI’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.
Tom BradyAn association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas JeffersonAristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell