Men Quotes

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

~ Abbe Pierre

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

~ Gale Sayers

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

~ Albert Ellis

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

~ Alphonse Karr

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

~ E. M. Forster

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

~ George Santayana

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.

~ Germaine Greer

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

~ Josh Billings

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

~ Mae West

On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.

~ Bill Flores

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'

~ Jerry Seinfeld

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

~ George Santayana

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

~ George Balanchine

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

~ Germaine Greer

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

~ John Gray

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

~ Russell Hoban

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

~ Gloria Steinem

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

~ Camille Paglia

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

~ Philip Stanhope

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

~ Phil Mcgraw

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

~ Shannon Lucid

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

~ Clara Zetkin

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

~ Clara Zetkin

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

~ Sara Paretsky

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

~ Steve Buyer

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

~ Audre Lorde

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

~ André Maurois

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

~ Maurice Chevalier

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

~ Marilyn French

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

~ Betty Friedan

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

~ Gloria Steinem

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

~ Bill Cosby

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

~ Ambrose Bierce

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

~ George Eliot

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

~ George Clooney

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

~ George W. Bush