MEN QUOTES V

quotations about men


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The right boys i always toss and the wrong ones i keep on top of me like paperweights.

DANIEL HANDLER
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Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

A Kiss of Shadows

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All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The Sound and the Fury

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Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

PAULINE RÉAGE

introduction, The Image

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It is desperately hard these days for an average child to grow up to be a man, for our present organized system does not want men. They are not safe.

PAUL GOODMAN

Growing Up Absurd

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What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall be man to the Übermensch: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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We are not men, but promises of men.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Few women think a man complete without vice.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

HOMER

The Iliad

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Men and barbed wire have their good points.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The Sound and the Fury

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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The Sound and the Fury

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Being a Man is always acting like a Man.

JOSEPH GREENE

The ComMANdments: The Official Guide Book to Man Rules


Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite of him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Sartor Resartus

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Men simply weren't worth the effort. They expected a great deal of support, both physical and emotional, and seemed to think that a few moments a week of sexual gratification should suffice to keep a woman happy.

JOHN SAUL

Midnight Voices

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I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

MAUREEN DOWD

Are Men Necessary?

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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill.

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands

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Men are unwise and curiously planned.

DORIS LESSING

The Cleft: A Novel

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If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

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