Men Quotes

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

~ Antonio Munoz Molina

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

~ Connie Chung

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

~ Nancy Friday

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

~ David Allan Coe

All men are born equally free.

~ Salmon P. Chase

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

~ Maureen Reagan

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

~ Kathleen Parker

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

~ Alice S. Rossi

I like having young assistants in my office; they have energy, and I spend time with them to make sure they understand what we're doing. By investing in them, I'm investing in the magazine. All over 'Vogue,' 'Teen Vogue,' and 'Men's Vogue,' there are people who have been through not only my office but also many other offices at 'Vogue.'

~ Anna Wintour

'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.

~ Aeriel Miranda

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

~ Shakira

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

~ Pope John Xxiii

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

~ Andrew Carnegie

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

~ Naveen Jain

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

~ J.k. Rowling

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

~ Marvin Davis

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

~ Bram Stoker

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

~ Janeane Garofalo

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

~ Thomas Carlyle

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

~ John Ruskin

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

~ Sienna Miller

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

~ Thomas Hardy

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

~ Colleen Mccullough

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

~ Rabbit Maranville

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Thomas Jefferson

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

~ Aristotle

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

~ Hannah Arendt

If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.

~ Tom Cotton

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

~ George Orwell

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

~ William James

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

~ Edwin Markham

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

~ Thomas Huxley

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.

~ Charles M. Schwab

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford