Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
—American Indian Proverb
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.
—Jerry Seinfeld (b.1954) American Comedian
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
—Thomas Dekker
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
—Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
—Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British Head of State
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the other.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Guys are like roses. You’ve got to watch out for the pricks.
—Unknown
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent and sincere earnestness.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
—Julius Caesar (c.100–44BCE) Roman Statesman, Military General
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
—J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) American Nuclear Physicist
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It’s possible that both are right.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses… it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) English Aristocrat, Poet, Novelist, Writer
‘Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
—Marlene Dietrich (1901–92) German-born American Actor, Singer
Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
—Common Proverb
Look, we’re all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house—in the bedroom he’s asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he’s rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he’s paying his taxes, in the yard he’s raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he’s making a bomb to blow it all up.
—Arthur Miller (1915–2005) American Playwright, Essayist