“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Topic
men
981 quotes
Quotes, most loved first
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.”
“Men 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.”
“If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.”
“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”
“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”
“Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.”
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”
“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.”
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
“Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.”
“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”
“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.”
“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.”
“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”
“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.”
“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.”
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.”
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.”
“Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.”
“I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.”
“Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.”