Men Quotes

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

~ David Spade

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

~ Katherine Johnson

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.

~ William Godwin

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

~ Rose George

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

~ Blaise Pascal

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

~ Edmund Burke

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

~ Nicole Kidman

The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'

~ Adrienne Mayor

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

~ George Henry Lewes

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

~ Frederick Henry Hedge

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

~ Plato

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

~ Giorgio De Chirico

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

~ William Osler

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

~ E. M. Forster

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

~ Aristotle

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

~ Thomas Jefferson

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

~ Belle Boyd

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

~ Robert Kennedy

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

~ Lysander Spooner

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

~ Jimmy Breslin

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

~ Morgan Fairchild

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

~ Hill Harper

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

~ Aristotle

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

~ Major Taylor

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

~ Deborah Tannen

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

~ Joanna Lumley

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

~ Gilbert Parker

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

~ Alicia Machado

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

~ Rene Russo