MEN QUOTES V

quotations about men

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 is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Raising the Wind", Saturday Courier, October 14, 1843

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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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Man, being the strongest of all animals, differs from the rest; he was obliged to be his own domesticator; he had to tame himself.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain on Common Sense

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

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs

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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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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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If sense was gunpowder ever one of you men put together wouldn't have enough to load a round of birdshot.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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I have been thinking, my love, and on my return,
I would like to reveal the truth of us, of myself.
I am tired of this restrictive masculine role.

CHRIS ABANI

Hands Washing Water

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It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

NORA ROBERTS

Happy Ever After

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The hardest man ... is but a shell.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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No one has any right to be angry with me, if I think fit to enumerate man among the quadrapeds. Man is neither a stone nor a plant, but an animal, for such is his way of living and moving; nor is he a worm, for then he would have only one foot; nor an insect, for then he would have antennae; nor a fish, for he has no fins; nor a bird, for he has no wings. Therefore, he is a quadraped, had a mouth like that of other quadrapeds, and finally four feet, on two of which he goes, and uses the other two for prehensive purposes.

CARL LINNAEUS

Fauna Suecica


Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.

REBECCA WEST

The Thinking Reed

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Ah, race of mortal men,
How as a thing of nought
I count ye, though ye live;
For who is there of men
That more of blessing knows,
Than just a little while
To seem to prosper well,
And, having seemed, to fall?

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus the King

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Man, only -- rash, refined, presumptuous man,
Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

GEORGE CANNING

Progress of Man

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Man, a wild beast, cousin of the gorilla, has emerged from the profound darkness of animal instinct into the light of the mind, which explains in a wholly natural way all his past mistakes and partially consoles us for his present errors.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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