Quotes about men

Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their winethey can't play at wistand they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Your reputation is what others think of you your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated character can only be developed and maintained.

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy you can only go to the borders you can look in but you cannot enter.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

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.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off she only wants him to want to do it.

Men - gifts that we love to open women - gifts that we love to keep.

A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough or rather your sterness has a power beyond beauty

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Free men are the strongest men.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Don't be bashful we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, and the only justice to lead the N.F.L. in rushing. He was one of the smartest and most courageous men I've ever known.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.'

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

There is no such thing as standing still you either move forward or regress.

The Church is looking for better methods God is looking for better men.

Even great men bow before the Sun it melts hubris into humility.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate but men rile me awfully…

The superior man responds the inferior man reacts.

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

Men are frightful nuisances at times how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.

Men are always ready to fight it's tenderness that scares them.

She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Women rule the world we just let our men think they do.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at the bottom of their souls and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!

Women worry about the things that men forget Men worry about the things that women remember.

The reason why we are all different is to allow us to to keep learning about each other so we can keep working with each other and live with one another.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers men like food!

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging men buy fast cars.

Middle age is such a low point for well-being it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among the younger and older people.

A fast car can make women 'like' a man and a man 'like' women … fast.

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs the rest sell what's between their ears.

I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.

Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too her father.

A woman should never have a need to fear the man who holds her in his arms neither his hands that touches her.

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men this is the essential truth of pornography.

I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one's self wholly in his power but sure you have generosity enough not to abuse it.

Don't be so impatient in finding love take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book.

I’m beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don’t want to those you want to marry and can’t.

Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve I can CREATE whatever I can IMAGINE!

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic like me.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.