Grown Up Men

Know the great men of your age. - Baltasar Gracian

All men by nature desire to know. - Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle

When women enter middle age, it gives men a pause. - Unknown

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. - French Proverb

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. - Frank O'Hara

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. - Epictetus

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. - H L Mencken

Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other. - W Somerset Maugham

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. - Anais Nin

I preach as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. - Richard Baxter

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day. - Jay Leno

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. - William Butler Yeats

When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around. - Mark Twain

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. - Blaise Pascal

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German. - Emperor Charles V

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. - Samuel Smiles

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. - Neil Kinnock

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. - Seneca

What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere? "Hold my purse." - Francois Morency

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. - Julius Caesar

Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. - George Carlin

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. - Oscar Wilde

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland

It has been the cross which has revealed to good men that their goodness has not been good enough. - Richard J Neuhaus

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. - Andre Gide

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. - Oscar Wilde

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. - Sydney Harris

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. - Francesca M. Cancian

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. - Ravi Zacharias

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. - Rita Rudner

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count. - Barbara Mikulski

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison