MEN QUOTES VIII

quotations about men

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

DORIS LESSING

The Cleft: A Novel

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We are not men, but promises of men.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something -- and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Wild at Heart

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I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

NORA ROBERTS

The Pagan Stone

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Men and barbed wire have their good points.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale

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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Man is but a pebble dropped in a pool. And if man is but a pebble, then all his works can be no more.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides

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Thus man himself offers sufficient proof of the two orders--Matter and Spirit. In him culminates a visible finite universe; in him begins a universe invisible and infinite.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Seraphita

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You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is ... or you don't take him at all.

NORA ROBERTS

Tears of the Moon

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Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

ANNE LAMOTT

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

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Any scheme which makes man the head and centre of all things will fail in its applications.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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If the heart of man is deprest with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.

JOHN GAY

The Beggar's Opera

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Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Finisher

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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

AYN RAND

The Virtue of Selfishness

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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 like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realize that most of them are rotten inside.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Prisoner of Heaven

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Good men are like good hairdressers. Hard as hell to find.

ZANE

Shame on It All

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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest
Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand
Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"The Grand Canyon"

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