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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Marilyn Monroe on men

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn Monroe on men

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
Marilyn Monroe on men

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato on men

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau on men

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw on men

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell on men

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire on men

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill on men

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu on men

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno on men

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine on men

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar on men

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau on men

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli on men

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau on men