Men Quotes - Page 20

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.

The misery of sleep is beyond the understanding of men.

The heavy rain dripped off his thick leather hat and sloshed on the dry hard ground. To someone with a soul, it might have been peaceful, pretty, even to watch the drops bounce and form graceful puddles before they disappeared into the cracks in the Earth.Daniel Marlin merely cursed. He only saw the weather as another delay before they could rescue their brother from jail. He turned the horse back into the copse of trees, hating to admit defeat.

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

If you’re the dad of a daughter, your job is particularly important, affecting her self-esteem, her autonomy, and her aspirations (according to one study, out of the University of British Columbia, daughters who see their dads doing chores are less likely to limit theircareer aspirations to stereotypically female industries, like teaching or nursing). But you can’t just talk the talk, you have to actually walk it. We promise, it’ll pay off for you, too! Working dads who spend more time with their kids are happier in their jobs. They’re also more patient, empathetic, and flexible—and at least one study claims it might just help them live longer.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.

Sure, I watched the workmen come and lower large pieces of rotten sheetrock and lift new clean panels on a pulleyfrom that same window months ago, and I could have written then, but I must have sensed her coming, the smoker, so I waited.

Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'

In relationships, when a person gets angry, it is really just hurt in disguise.  So men, consider this the next time the woman you are with gets angry with you.  She is most likely just hurt and needs you to hold her and reassure her. 

Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.

In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist.

Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training. -Grandmamma Holmes

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

Most of what you do to fulfill God’s purposes will require acts of faith.

... Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.'Joanna was half serious, half laughing.It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery.'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.'A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...'She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery.

Men will not save women for nothing, but themselves. Women have to save themselves.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.

I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.

don't sulk. you're acting just like a man.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

When men cry, real men, we cry Man Tears. Those are tears made up of actual meat. We basically cry pork chops and steaks. Imagine a steak tearing its way out of your eye. It hurts like hell, which causes more tears. It's a vicious cycle

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises....

We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not theone.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.

I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again

I traced a finger along my bottom lip as I wondered what his erection would look like, and how I should seduce him. I thought what kind of approach would work best: whether to go in slow and seductively, or whether I should make him notice me in some hard and fast way.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through the unexpected, then you have a confidence based on the fact that you know exactly where God wants you to be.

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.