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Men Quotes


"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."


"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."



"I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out."


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


"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."


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


"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."


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


"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."


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


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


"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 marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."


"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics."



"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."


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


"I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships."


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


"Evil prospers when good men do nothing."


"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."


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


"I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?"


"We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer."


"Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail."
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