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Men Quotes

Men and women have always been typecast as having certain basic personalities. While men are considered to be logical and practical, women are believed to be emotional. The latter provides stability in a relationship, while the former provides support. It is these typical qualities of men that have been mentioned in the form of quotes, by renowned personalities around the world. If you also want to know what men are basically like, go through the famous quotations and sayings about men, provided in the lines below.

Megan Thee Stallion

Men are objects to me.

Jordan Peterson

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Cillian Murphy

Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Walter Winchell

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Thomas Mann

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Thomas Merton

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Helen Rowland

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Abbie Hoffman

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Dominic West

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Augustus

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

David Lloyd George

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

John Mason Brown

You had a change two years ago in the chief executive, so you had a change at the top in terms of direction. He is a careful man but favors expansion.

Office Change
Henry Cavill

I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

Christopher Columbus

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Cher

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Meghan Markle

When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well.

I think for every young player of my age, they have to go out on loan. I know there's an U21 league and the Europa League for the youth teams, but it's not the same as playing men's football, when there's a lot more riding on it.

Michael Douglas

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

Alexis Bledel

Working on 'Mad Men' was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.

Experience Writing
Eva Green

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

Wilt Chamberlain

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

Sir Thomas Browne

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Donald Glover

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Thomas Hobbes

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Helen Rowland

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Gale Sayers

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.

Women Fighting
Julius Caesar

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Bill Paxton

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Eva Green

I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

Grace Kelly

I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.

Soren Kierkegaard

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Adlai Stevenson II

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Sir Thomas Browne

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

John Greenleaf Whittier

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Milana Vayntrub

I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

Catherine the Great

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Luck
John Adams

A government of laws, and not of men.

I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.

Love Science Children
Brock Lesnar

America. Shoutout to the men in uniform that protect and serve this country. From sea to shining sea. From one white boy, to all nationalities, we've got to stand together, people.

People Sea Togetherness
Saint Thomas Aquinas

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Helen Rowland

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little personal characteristics.

Gavin McInnes

Sorry, equality is a myth. Women aren't as strong as men - they can't even hold their booze as well as men.

Holland Taylor

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

Malcolm X

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Amy Winehouse

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

Roald Dahl

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Pele

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Life Plants Soul Earth
Sir Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Helen Rowland

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

Natalie Portman

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Jordan Peterson

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Julius Caesar

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Ryan Gosling

Women are better than men.

Elizabeth Taylor

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Judy Davis

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

Osama bin Laden

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

Mindy Kaling

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

Tiger Woods

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Dick Van Dyke

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Thomas Hobbes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Eudora Welty

Beware of a man with manners.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

Helen Rowland

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

Milana Vayntrub

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

B. R. Ambedkar

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Cher

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Whitney Houston

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Bernie Sanders

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

Women Togetherness
Dan Bilzerian

Anything that we can do to help men be more confident, I think that's going to be a net positive.

Julie Bowen

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.

Women World Children
Elisabeth Moss

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

David Lloyd George

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Charles Kingsley

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

Neil Gorsuch

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.

Julius Caesar

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Preity Zinta

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

Brigitte Macron

I have never been attracted by younger men.

Orville Wright

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

Omar Khayyam

Drunkards are doomed to hell, so men declare, Believe it not, 'tis but a foolish scare; Heaven will be empty as this hand of mine, If none who love good drink find entrance there.

Sir Thomas Browne

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

John Greenleaf Whittier

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Alexander the Great

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

When you get the first knock, it kind of wakes you up: you know, they are men, and it is not like Under-18s when you can take loads of knocks and know you will be fine, that you won't feel anything after the game. You definitely get harder knocks, but it helps. You just get up and get on with the game, and then you can give it to them back.