Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint...
