Men Quotes

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution 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.

~ Jim Ryun

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

~ Ann Robinson

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

~ Henry David Thoreau

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

~ Aldous Huxley

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.

~ M. J. Rose

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

~ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

~ Annie Besant

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

~ Brad Thor

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

~ Leland Stanford

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

~ Jean Anouilh

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

~ John Frankenheimer

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

~ Jacques Maritain

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

~ Betty Dodson

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

~ Jennifer Granholm

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

~ Adam Weishaupt

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

~ Willa Cather

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

~ Comte De Lautréamont

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

~ Gertrude Stein

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

~ Nadine Labaki

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

~ James Cash Penney

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

~ Abraham Lincoln

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

~ Wynton Marsalis

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

~ Candice Bergen

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

~ Victoria Woodhull

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

~ Cokie Roberts

Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.

~ Hugo Chavez

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

~ Marvin Ammori

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

~ George Weinberg

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

~ William J. H. Boetcker

Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.

~ Eric Massa

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

~ Benjamin F. Wade

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

~ George Richards Minot

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

~ Jay Leno

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

~ Gloria Steinem

I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

~ David Nicholls