Category: Quotes About Men

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. -Alexander Hamilton

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. -Calvin Coolidge

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. -Tim Allen

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. -George Washington

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. -John F. Kennedy

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. -Henry Ward Beecher

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. -Marcus Aurelius

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. -Christopher Dawson

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. -Simon Wiesenthal

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. -Voltaire

We have guided missiles and misguided men. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. -Henry David Thoreau

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. -Clint Eastwood

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. -Alanis Morissette

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. -Charles Kingsley

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. -George Bernard Shaw

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. -Thomas Carlyle

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. -Eric Hoffer

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. -Bertrand Russell

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. -Samuel Johnson