quotations about men
Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
A Man in the house is worth two in the street.
MAE WEST
Belle of the Nineties
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.
RITA RUDNER
stand-up routine
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
attributed, Men and Other Reptiles
Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS
A Clockwork Orange
Anyone that believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man try to wrap a Christmas present.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Men are but children of a larger growth.
JOHN DRYDEN
All For Love
Man is Nature's sole mistake.
W. S. GILBERT
Princess Ida
I wonder if Mr. Right really exists? I've already met Mr. Player, Mr. Psycho, Mr. Lazy, Mr. User, Mr. Cheap, Mr. Married, and Mr. Stalker.
ANONYMOUS
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
GEORGE ORWELL
Animal Farm
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
BOB DYLAN
"Blowin' in the Wind"
Man is something to be surpassed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Woman's Day Magazine, May 8, 2007
Men aren't really complicated ... They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.
E. L. JAMES
Fifty Shades of Grey
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
MAE WEST
I'm No Angel
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.
PHILIP K. DICK
Valis
Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
ARIANA FRANKLIN
Mistress of the Art of Death