Quotes on Men

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.