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Men Quotes


"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."


"Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it."


"There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman."


"Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration."



"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."


"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."


"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."


"Men have two ways of righting their wrongs, by force and by the ballot. Both are denied to women, one by nature, the other by man."


"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."



"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."


"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."


"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."


"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."


"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."


"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."


"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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