Best Men Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.”

Men Earth Girl Talking Terror Every Man Starks Sociopath Pretty Girl

Author:Chuck Lorre

“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.”

People Men Way Today Animal Tomorrow Animal Welfare

Author:Dian Fossey

“Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.”

Men Stills Real Dollars Add Cents Pennies

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.”

Knows Men Years May Two Hard Stories Found He Man Proud Plant Decades Managers Tire Alabama Nineteen

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.”

Knows Men Earth

Author:Ray Lewis

“If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'”

Ifs Men Come Up Rome Grey Anatomy Grey's Anatomy

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.”

Ifs Men Trying Said Stills Enough Taste Composer Happy Man

Author:Kurt Masur

“The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.”

Men Kids Type Handsome

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.”

Men Want Want Something

Author:Marla Maples

“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Ifs Men Asks Difficult Genius

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“A rich man can afford to be generous to many.”

Men Rich Generous Rich Man

Book:The Quality of Mercy

Source: The Quality of Mercy

“Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.”

Men Stills Known Wonderful Treated This Day Princess Roger Wonderful Man

Author:Mindy McCready

“Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.”

Men Order Enjoy Company Fame Spread Educated Friendly Instruction Greece Educated Man

Author:Moses Mendelssohn

“One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.”

Men Years Government Law Hundred Indian Accord Pilgrim Decree American Indian Enslavement Plymouth

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”

Thinking Men Literature Voice He Man Poet Hearing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.”

“You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.”

Knows Men

Author:Richard Madden

“I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.”

Men Fighting Strong Fun Waiting Sides Roles He Man Strong Women Typical Blonde Iconic

Author:Rose McGowan

“I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.”

People Men Dangerous Height Tall Exes Dangerous Man

Author:Rose McGowan

“All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.”

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Author:Samantha Mumba

“I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.”

Men Different Care Mother Tables Grandmother Mentality My Grandmother Catering Different Mentality

Author:Teena Marie

“I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.”

Knows Men Able Earth Economy

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.”

People Men Alive

Author:Tracy Morgan

“We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.”

People Men Common Affair Leading Ladies

Author:William H. Macy

“My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.”

Men Teacher Grew Grew Up Rose Patient Including Peers Nurturing Admiring Cellists

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.”

People Thinking Men Stills Play Tvs Mad Come Up Mad Men

Author:Zosia Mamet

“I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.”

Thinking Men Character Would Be Turns Actors Character Actors Dashing

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.”

Knows Men Gone Personality Shapes Harvard Midwest

Author:Dean Norris

“I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.”

Men Age Situation Hollywood Theater Handsome

Author:John Noble

“Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.”

Men Father Strong Grows Son Allowing Very Strong

Author:John Noble

“Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.”

Men Ideas Effort Groups Female Males Russia Protest Something New Domain Emerging Accessories

Author:Alexei Navalny

“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”

Men Reason Political Bases Everyday Russia Routine Sympathy Arrested

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.”

Men Years Long White Higher Benefits Currents Checks Receiving Expectancy Latina Life Expectancy

Author:Grace Napolitano

“All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.”

Men Want Forever Rocks I Want You

Author:Jason Newsted

“It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.”

Men Stills Would Be Aggression Assertion

Author:Jessye Norman

“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.”

Men Ends Mother Father Streets Debt Teenager Ruined Mother And Father

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Man is remembered by his deeds.”

Men Deeds Remembered

Author:Knute Nelson

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”

Men Ends Shows Invention Our Thoughts Archaeology Archeology

Author:Michel Foucault

“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”

Men Made Young Prayer Meetings Young Man Necks Knives Fifteen Scandal Kneeling Prayer Meeting

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.”

Men Years Mind Long Has Beens Body Concepts Victim Notion Motherhood Traditional Legacy Mind And Body Chastity Long Legs

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.”

People Men Hurt Fairs Love Hurt Hurting People

Author:David Ortiz

“Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.”

Men Feels Wanted

Author:Denise Van Outen

“Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!”

Ifs Thinking Men Looks Has Beens Enjoy Cry More Time Fabulous Pillow

Author:Denise Van Outen

“I like men-inspired outfits.”

Men Inspired Outfits

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.”

Men Age Nations Challenges Agendas Gilded Theodore Gilded Age

Author:Ron Fournier

“I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.”

Thinking Men Stills Two Parent Worry He Man Depends Politician Income Pins Breadwinner

Author:Frances O'Grady

“My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.”

Men Firsts Eye Remember Poverty Hero Feminist Teenager Discovering

Author:Frances O'Grady

“I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.”

Ifs Men Writing Cricket Happy Man

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.”

Men Should Reality Government Church Teaching Politician Unions Parliament Unequivocal

Author:Keith O'Brien

“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.”

Ifs Men Giving Book Would Be Months Birth Periods Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Kevin O'Leary

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