Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.

Suzanne Fields

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Stephen Gardiner

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.

Sharon Kay Penman

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Sophocles

I know my boyfriend loves to have something to hold onto. There's a lot of men out there who do.

Sara Ramirez

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

Stephen Rodrick

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

Stuart Rose

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

Samuel Smiles

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Stendhal

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Stendhal

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Thomas Huxley

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

Todd Haynes

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

Ted Turner

Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?

Terry Wogan

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh