30,129 Quotes About Men

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

When a woman wants to get ahead, she cannot tie a millstone to her feet. Most men is millstones.

You might not need a man--but I need you. That's why women marry, Elizabeth-- to give their inner strength to some weak man.

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

He says he wants to go back to Germany,' Nyasha confides. 'As soon as he's finished his doctorate,' she goes on, as though both completion of his research and departure are imminent. You realize she does not know Cousin-Brother-in-Law is mulling another thesis because he is no longer interested in his subject. You are surprised your in-law is behaving in the way you expect your own black men to do, first of all by being so indecisive and then by not telling his wife.

What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.