The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods’ bodies the same shape as their own.
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
Father’s Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, ‘This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.’
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
Men aren’t necessities. They’re luxuries.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Gay men don’t have much in common with lesbians.
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.
Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
By nature, men love newfangledness.
Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.