Quotes with men-versus-women

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 2712.

• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

  Stendhal
  French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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• The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

  Kate Millet
  American writer (1934 - 2017)
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• The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  American president (1908 - 1973)
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• The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

  Billie Lourd
  American actress (1992 - )
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• The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

  Benjamin Cardozo
  American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

  William Somerset Maugham
  English writer (1874 - 1965)
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• The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

  Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
  French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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• The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  Frederick the Great
  King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well-meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis
  American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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• The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.

  Friedrich Melchior Grimm
  German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

  Ernest Renan
  French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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• The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

  Anna Quindlen
  American author and journalist (1952 - )
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• The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

  J. C. Hare
   
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• The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.

  Beeban Kidron
  British filmmaker (1961 - )
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• The hair is the richest ornament of women.

  Martin Luther
   
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• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

  Surprised by Joy (1955)

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• indiscretions
• encroachment
• well-meaning
• imagination
• entertained

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