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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Charles Baudelaire

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Marilyn Monroe

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Marvin Davis

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

Morris Chestnut

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Elihu Root

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Amos Bronson Alcott

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Red Skelton

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Edmund Waller

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Mahatma Gandhi

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatcher

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Keith Miller

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Daniel Webster

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Cyril Connolly

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Lana Turner

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

George William Norris

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Max Lerner

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Jimmy Carter

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Moliere

To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

Rita Rudner

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Woodrow Wilson

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Quintilian

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Iris Murdoch

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Jerry Seinfeld

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Angela Davis

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

Time takes away the grief of men.

Desiderius Erasmus

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

H. L. Mencken

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

Wynton Marsalis

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

B. R. Ambedkar

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Camille Paglia

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

Mario Lopez

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Alphonse Karr

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kin Hubbard

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Emil Zatopek

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond de Goncourt

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

H. L. Mencken

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Heinrich Heine

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Davy Crockett

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Camille Paglia

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Michael Gurian

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Herodotus

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Dolly Parton

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Bertrand Russell

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menander

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. White

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Michael Gurian

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

Eva Herzigova

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Chief Joseph

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac

Men must know their limitations.

Clint Eastwood

The less men think, the more they talk.

Montesquieu

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Diogenes

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

James Cash Penney

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Laurence Sterne

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Phyllis Diller

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris