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Man Quotes


"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."


"Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically."


"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all."


"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."



"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."
Man,



"When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours."


"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism."


"The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country."


"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers."



"Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite."



"For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men."


"The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of."



"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."


"The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat."


"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."


"The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is."


"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."


"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."



"Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."



"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men."


"Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine."


"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."



"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
Man,
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