Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

George Jackson

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Gary Lineker

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

George Savile

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Gerrit Smith

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Gertrude Stein

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

Gloria Steinem

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

George Weinberg

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

Halle Berry

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

Helen Fisher

Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

Hill Harper

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Hedy Lamarr

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

Henry Cabot Lodge

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Henry Miller