Quotes on Men

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.