MEN QUOTES V

quotations about men


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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

JOHN DONNE
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions


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Man, when viewed in separation from his Maker and his end, can be as little understood and portrayed, as a plant torn from the soil in which it grew, and cut off from communication with the clouds and sun.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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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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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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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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Men and barbed wire have their good points.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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

HOMER

The Iliad

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We are not men, but promises of men.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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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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Few women think a man complete without vice.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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Being a Man is always acting like a Man.

JOSEPH GREENE

The ComMANdments: The Official Guide Book to Man Rules


Men are unwise and curiously planned.

DORIS LESSING

The Cleft: A Novel

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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