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Men Quotes

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

– Thomas Paine

I don’t mean to be presumptuous that men don’t feel this, I don’t mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

– Tea Leoni

You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men… I like playing bad guys, and I don’t have a problem doing that. They’re interesting characters, and there’s as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys – they’re rich, they’re strong, they’re powerful, and so that’s fine with me.

– Tobin Bell

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

– Viggo Mortensen

I would say I’m basically interested in human beings, and I don’t really care whether they’re men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

– Susanne Bier

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

– Sacha Guitry

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what’s going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I’m sure of it.

– Utah Phillips

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

– William H. O’Connell

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don’t make eye contact, the guys won’t come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

– Silvia Colloca

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

– William Kidd

White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

– Susan B. Anthony

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

– William J. H. Boetcker

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

– William Tyndale

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

– Victoria Woodhull

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

– Seth Grahame-Smith

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

– Woodrow Wilson

Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him.

– Sheri L. Dew

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

– Stephen Leacock

Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men’s wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10.

– Suzy Menkes

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren’t.

– Zoe Lister-Jones

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

– William Manchester

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

– Steven Pinker

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay

I think it’s straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That’s probably unfair. Maybe they just don’t complain as much.

– Theresa Rebeck

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

– Warren Farrell

‘Dispatches’ is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century and the most brilliant treatment of war and men I have ever read.

– Sonny Mehta

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

– William Ellery Channing

All Newfoundlander men can knit.

– Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.

– William Falconer

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