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Men Quotes


"I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment."


"The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships."


"Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war."


"Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason."


"I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know."


"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare."


"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."


"I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic."


"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."


"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well."



"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men."


"What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences."


"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College."


"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs."


"Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."


"Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion."


"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."


"What God chooses for us children of men is always the best."


"It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved."


"I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along."


"It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors."


"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy."


"There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness."


"Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got."
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