Men Quotes

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

~ Winston Graham

Indeed the mind of Ilúvatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all things that are to come. But this we hold to be true, that your home is not here, neither in the land of Aman nor anywhere within the Circles of the World. And the Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of Ilúvatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they grew afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.

~ Louis L'amour

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

~ Agatha Christie

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When men cry, real men, we cry Man Tears. Those are tears made up of actual meat. We basically cry pork chops and steaks. Imagine a steak tearing its way out of your eye. It hurts like hell, which causes more tears. It's a vicious cycle

~ Larry Gent

Men are frightful nuisances at times, how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.

~ Elizabeth Peters

You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight

~ Renee Ahdieh

Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.

~ Rae Carson

You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. You think real men don't get scared? We do, all the time, especially when the people we love can be taken away from us. The key to manhood is being there, every morning when she wakes up, every night before she goes to bed. That's what a man does. It has nothing to do with how good you are with some shiny knives. And if you let her do this thing alone, then by God—

~ Ann Aguirre

Seriously, men.” Gina scowls when she turns back to us. “We’re royalty when they want to fuck. Thrilled to have as much sex as their anatomy allows, and then we’re nothing.Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

~ Katy Evans

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

~ Marjane Satrapi

We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

~ Tamora Pierce

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

What was it with women and pushing men’s buttons?I get that a woman wants to look attractive. News flash: you already do. We see it. But apparently to women, owning their own beauty isn’t enough. They arm all the weapons in their arsenal to gain the attention of every Y chromosome within a ten-mile radius. Why do they go to all the trouble? Validation.Meanwhile, biology dictates survival of the fittest; battles ensue, wars are fought, and somewhere amid all the carnage, a victor emerges to claim his female. All because said female just wanted to go out and feel pretty that night.

~ Kat Bastion

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

~ John Dos Passos

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.

~ Angela Carter

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A wise man once said NOTHING... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!

~ Tanya Masse

Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture.

~ Jean Kilbourne

Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.

~ Jacques Yonnet

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

~ Deborah Meyler

When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth; and this causes them to regard you as inferior.

~ K.m.docherty

No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.

~ K.m.docherty

She wants to drive me crazy so that I’ll want her even more. She’s teasing me. That’s what women do. You ever heard of a man doing this? Course not.

~ Jack Dancer

Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN

~ Sunday Adelaja

I would have seen flaws in this, later in my life. I would have felt the impatience, even suspicion, a woman can feel towards a man who lacks a motive. Who has only friendship to offer and offers that so easily and bountifully that even if it is rejected he can move along as buoyantly as ever. Here was no solitary fellow hoping to hook up with a girl. Even I could see that, inexperienced as I was. Just a person who took comfort in the moment and in a sort of reasonable façade of life.

~ Alice Munro

Baseball isn't just a game. It's life being played out on a field—a field of dreams—on diamonds of green, where players pursuing their dreams try to be the best they can be on the grandest stage of all—where men become boys and boys become men, all speaking one universal language without uttering a single word.

~ Tom Tatum

All men have life, but only few men know its value.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Can you start a movement in your land that will encourage men and women to begin to think, to begin to make sound judgment and informed decisions? Will you bring illumination to your people? Will you facilitate understanding amidst those whom you live with? The earth is crying for people who make sound judgment and informed decisions

~ Sunday Adelaja

Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land

~ Sunday Adelaja

God is short of responsible men which explains why he said “who shall I send and who would go for us?

~ Sunday Adelaja

God is looking for sincere men he could send to politics to manage politics for him.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who are men in God’s eyes would live and die for the promotion of equity, fairness and impartiality

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sure, I watched the workmen come and lower large pieces of rotten sheetrock and lift new clean panels on a pulleyfrom that same window months ago, and I could have written then, but I must have sensed her coming, the smoker, so I waited.

~ Kristen Henderson

I call it the “Fuck up, own up, and get up” policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn’t make them worse.

~ Penelope Douglas

A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.

~ Shannon L. Alder

...when women survive an awful marriage or love affair, and all that shit, they generally avoid another relationship for quite some time. With men, however, it is just the opposite; the moment they finish a catastrophe they start looking for another one. Men are incapable of being alone.

~ Elif Shafak

Ladies, don't lower yourself to fight over a man or compete with other women for one. It's not classy, immature, and a waste of time. Instead, use that energy and time wisely by achieving goals and being a better you. This way, you attract someone better than a man that doesn't see the jewel that you are. Have standards always.

~ April Mae Monterrosa