Quotes of: Older-men Keyword

The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.

God & Caesar: Christian Faith & Political Action

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

The Goon, Volume 10: Death's Greedy Comeuppance

Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.

The Goblins of Eros

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

The Game of Kings

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...

The Glass-Blowers

The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open

The Green Mile

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Grendel

...so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.

The Gargoyle

take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as w...

Gulliver's Travels

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

The Haunted Bookshop

Music enters through the ear, not the penis hole. This is probably a common mistake most deaf men make.

How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

High Fidelity

hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

How to Build a Girl

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?

Homicide in Hardcover

By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.

The Hundred-Year House

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

Birds of America

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Bag of Bones

Girls can fight with swords, too. Sometimes, even better than men can. They just have to want it badly enough that they're willing to work harder at it.

Bleeds My Desire

I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

The Body Farm

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

The Bronze Horseman

Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn’t get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out—and he was burning out.

Broken Honor