Men Quotes

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Katharine Whitehorn

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Johnny Carson

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napoleon Hill

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

J. Paul Getty

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Maya Angelou

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Henry David Thoreau

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Andrew Carnegie

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

A. N. Wilson

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Hillary Clinton

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Gore Vidal

Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

Aldous Huxley

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi