Quotes about Men

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Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836)	Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. - (Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.)
Aesop	Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)	Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)	Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Andy Gibb	Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
Anonymous	There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.
Anonymous	Retirement is experienced in three stages: (1) Go Go (2) Go Slow (3) No Go.
Anonymous	Repel them, repel them, make them relinquish the ball. - (Yale college cheer)
Anonymous	Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without. - (New England maxim)
Anonymous	Why do we kill people who kill people to show them that killing people is wrong?
Anonymous	If a man speaks in the forest where no woman can hear, is he still wrong?
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)	A society without an organized government would be at the mercy of the first criminal who came along and who would precipitate it into the chaos of gang warfare.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)	There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)	Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)	All movements go too far.
Bob Wells	For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Boston baseball fans	We're so used to being disappointed, that if we're not disappointed again this year, we'll be disappointed.
Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)	When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Bumper sticker	Real men don't set for stun.
Bumper sticker	Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
Bumper sticker	I'm retired. I was tired yesterday, and I'm tired again today.
bumper sticker	At least the war on the environment is going well.
C. V. R. Thompson	Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
Carl Jung	The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)	It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)	Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Dan Quayle (1947 - )	The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
Dan Quayle (1947 - )	I have made good judgments in the Past. I have made good judgments in the Future.
Dandemis	Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Dave Barry	If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
Dave Barry	I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)	From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35 she needs good looks; from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	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.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, 'I don't understand you, Sir;' upon which Johnson observed, 'Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.'
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	I pitied a friend before him, who had a whining wife that found every thing painful to her, and nothing pleasing -- "He does not know that she whimpers (says Johnson); when a door has creaked for a fortnight together, you may observe -- the master will scarcely give sixpence to get it oiled."
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of Government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which kings or laws can cause or cure.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)	I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight Morrow	The world is divided into people who do a thing - and people who get the credit.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)	In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)	The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)	All governments require enemy governments.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)	Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)	Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)	A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. And if some of the Bible is manifestly wrong, why should any of the rest of it be accepted automatically?
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)	Always pull up survey stakes anywhere you find them. -- George Washington Hayduke of The Monkey Wrench Gang
Elaine Boosler	I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
Emo Phillips (1956 - )	I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, "If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government Pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld	Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.
Frederic Bastiat	Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Friedrich Nietzsche	But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)	Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)	I am a gentleman, I live by robbing the poor.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)	There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)	A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)	Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
George Deukmejian	The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
Gloria Steinem	I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Golda Meir	Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)	To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)	Women should be obscene and not heard.
Groucho Marx	Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)	I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken	Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)	Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972)	It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)	How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)	If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
I. F. Stone	Every government is run by liars and nothing they say sould be believed.
J. D. Hunter (1945 - )	I quit being disillusioned when I quit being illusioned. - ((unknown self))
Jacques Yves Cousteau (1910 - 1997)	Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)	I hate women because they always know where things are.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)	Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)	It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jay Leno (1950 - )	The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.
Jerome K. Jerome	I have not a word to say against contented people, so long as they keep quiet. But do not, for goodness sake, let them go strutting about, as they are so fond of doing, crying out that they are the true models for the whole species.
Jilly Cooper	The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Jimmy Carter	There is a dramatic difference between what American citizens believe and want, and what our government is doing.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)	My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )	You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)	In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.
Joseph Sobran (1946 - )	If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
Judge Gideon J. Tucker	No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)	Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt. - (humorist)
Krishnamurti	It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Laurence J. Peter	Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )	We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? - (Chrysler Corp. chairman)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE - 65 CE)	A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. - (Roman philosopher)
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)	Men who never get carried away should be.
Margo Kaufman	The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)	Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself.
Marsha Warfield	Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
Menenius	The existence of bad women is, and has always been, due to the existence of good women.
Mo Udall	If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
Oscar Levant	I'm a self made man. Who else would help.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)	Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)	Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde	Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)	A bad temper, like Mr. Whistler's paintings, should never be displayed in public.
oscar wilde	women are a fascinatingly wilful sex. Every women is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Othal Brand	Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. - (member of a pesticide review board on chlordane)
P. J. O'Rourke	The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
Pat Coffey (1949 - )	Hell and all its firepower cannot match up to the wrath of a pissed off women
Rebecca West	The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rev. Nathaniel Ward	The world is full of care, much like unto a bubble; Women and care and care and women, and women and care and trouble.
Richard M. Nixon	Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Rita Rudner (1953 - )	Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' 'On what?' 'On fire?'
Robert Burton	I may not omit those two main plagues and dotages of mankind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted millions of people. They go commonly together.
Robert Redford (1936 - )	I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robin Morgan	Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Williams	See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Ronal Regan	Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - (Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986)
Ronald Reagan	The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan	The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Sen. Frank Church	I assume that a "Do not file" document can only be filed in a "Do not file" file.
Sir Almroth Wright	They are not far from the truth who allege there is no such thing as a good woman. There are only women who have been influenced by good men.
Solomon Short	The difference between contribution and commitment? Ham and eggs requires a contribution from the chicken, but a commitment from the pig.
Stephen Millich (1941 - )	Democracy is the most equitable form of government because, in it, greed and corruption are most widely spread.
Stephen Millich (1941 - )	It is a noble purpose of government to provide jobs for those of us who are otherwise unemployable.
Stephen Millich (1941 - )	A woman begins to need a man when she realizes self-torture will no longer suffice.
Stephen Millich (1941 - )	One woman is as bad as another but some are better than others.
Steve Martin	I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steven Wright	The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
Stewart Udall (1920 - )	Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. - (former Secretary of the Interior)
Thomas Paine	Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, and intolerable one.
Thomas Paine	Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Timothy Leary	Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Unknown	A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
Unknown	The weakest part of my body is a woman's eyes.
Victor Hugo	I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)	In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)	It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
W. C. Fields (1890 - 1946)	I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.
WALT HASKINS (1931 - )	It is rather amazing that those who believe that magic is a fake believe that government isn’t. - (Author "Comments USA")
Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)	I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Haskins	How different life would be if we were as concerned about what goes on behind our eyes as we are as to what goes on in front of them. - (Author "Comments USA")
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)	There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)	There's two theories to arguin' with a woman; neither one works.
Will Rogers	Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
William Jowett	The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
Winston Churchill	The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill	An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
Woody Allen (1935 - )	Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

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