Men Quotes
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.
I go for two kinds of men: the kind with muscles, and the kind without.
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses.
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.
Men have three ears: one on the left of the head, one on the right of the head, and one in the heart.
Men love according to their own will, and fear according to the will of the prince. A wise prince should establish himself on that which is in his own control, and not in that of others.
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other.
Men only blame vice and praise virtue from the perspective of self-interest.
Men can never acquire respect by benevolence alone.
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
Men take more pains to mask than to mend. Games lubricate the body and the mind. Observe all men, thyself most.
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?
Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the "breadwinner ethic.