Quotations About Men
A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.
Muhammad
The Sayings of Muhammad, 418
The Sayings of Muhammad, 418
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
William Wordsworth
Resolution and Independence
Resolution and Independence
A wife is the joy of a man's heart.
Talmud
Rabbinical writings
Rabbinical writings
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
Bettina Arndt
Private Lives, 1986
Private Lives, 1986
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
Philip Massinger
Fatal Dowry, 1632
Fatal Dowry, 1632
Men think less of other men's writing, but more of other men's wives.
Chinese Proverb
Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely.
Unknown
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.
Henry Ward Beecher
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
Zenna Scha
Dogs should not chase chickens, and men should not fight with their wives.
Chinese Proverb
Success has made failures of many men.
Cindy Adams