Men Quotes

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

~ T. D. Jakes

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

~ Molière

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

~ Frank Moore Colby

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

~ Jonathan Swift

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

~ H. L. Mencken

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

~ Roxane Gay

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'

~ Issa Rae

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

~ Marlon Wayans

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

~ Lara Flynn Boyle

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

~ George Jean Nathan

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

~ Norman Lear

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

~ Thomas Browne

I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.

~ Nigel Cole

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

~ Ernest Hemingway

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

~ John F. Kennedy

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren't shy about what they don't like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule of law. They really dislike the police, and certainly get the credit for the war between black men and police.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

~ Saul David

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

~ Ida Tarbell

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

~ Thomas Aquinas

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

~ Douglas Macarthur

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

~ François Fénelon

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

~ Ernie Pyle

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

~ Charles B. Rangel

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

~ H. G. Wells

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

~ John Foster Dulles

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

~ Zaha Hadid

Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the uncertainty of its preservation. They sacrificed a portion of this liberty so that they could enjoy the remainder in security and peace.

~ Cesare Beccaria

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

~ Dexter Gordon

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

~ J. F. C. Fuller

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

~ Charles B. Rangel

South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.

~ Kim Young-Ha

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

~ Arrian

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

~ William Westmoreland

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand