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Men Quotes


"Now is the time for all good men to run like hell."


"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings."


"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."


"Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?"


"Women had to deal with the men's response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the women's response as men want more time in."


"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament."


"I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men."


"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen."


"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them."


"Evil prospers when good men do nothing."


"Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?"


"I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men."


"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals."


"Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close."


"To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me."


"Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault."


"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."


"If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each."


"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."


"Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not."


"Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time."


"Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men."


"Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another."


"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."


"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."
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