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Men Quotes


"I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece."


"Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show."


"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."


"I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough."


"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations."


"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."


"Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list."


"Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas."


"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means."
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"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."


"'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level."


"What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent."


"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."


"Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that."


"I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men."


"Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads."


"The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind."


"He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are."


"There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered."


"There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and."



"My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions."


"I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide."


"A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general."
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