men quotes

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

An 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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

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

Men 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.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

The 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.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

All men hate the nagging.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.