- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
- Nov 07, 2020
This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
- Nov 07, 2020
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, it's men who run these big monster companies, and girl companies are usually much smaller - it's like an unwritten tech-industry stigma.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, women are expected to be equal to men in so many capacities - financially, career-wise, in education - yet the one disconnect was, and is, with relationships.
- Big Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big conversations I'm trying to have onstage right now is that to be pro-woman, you don't have to be anti-man. Saying all men suck makes you look like an idiot. And it's not helpful.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020