All Quotes

Men expect too much, do too little.
‐‐ Allen Tate

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.
‐‐ Rebecca Solnit

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.
‐‐ Susannah York

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.
‐‐ Pattie Boyd

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

Men freely believe that which they desire.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

Men get laid, but women get screwed.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

Men go after me, and I choose among them.
‐‐ Bess Myerson

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
‐‐ Kate Fox

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
‐‐ Edward Hoagland

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
‐‐ Antony Jay

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
‐‐ Voltaire

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.
‐‐ Brandon Boyd

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
‐‐ Erica Jong

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
‐‐ Francis Picabia

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
‐‐ Erik Erikson

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

Men have become the tools of their tools.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Men have been intimidated by my relationship with Howard. You know, it's hard for them to imagine that they could be number one, seeing this relationship.
‐‐ Robin Quivers

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
‐‐ Andrea Dworkin

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.
‐‐ Ellen Key

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
‐‐ Dizzy Gillespie

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.
‐‐ John Galliano

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.
‐‐ Leah Remini

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
‐‐ T. E. Lawrence

Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
‐‐ Karl Barth

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
‐‐ Eva Zeisel

Men have the choice to arrange their schedules so they can pick up the kids from school twice a week. And they have the choice not to, and then to feel guilty about this choice.
‐‐ Marcus Buckingham

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they're not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true - they are still amazing!
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
‐‐ John Chrysostom

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
‐‐ Indra Devi

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
‐‐ Stephen Lewis