MEN QUOTES IV

quotations about men


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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

SOPHOCLES
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fragment, Ajax the Locrian


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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

GASTON BACHÉLARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

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They were dressed in expensive clothes and looking at them one may think that men never lie on top of them in bed, but the assumption was totally wrong. For no matter how highly placed a woman, she's submissive to a man and for some of the women, it maybe some useless men that grunted on top of them.

KUMDONG BINDUL NOSTRA

I Will Never Trust a Man


They do not believe there can be tears between men. They think we are only playing a game and that we do it to shock them.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Jo's Boys

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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

GASTON BACHELARD

introduction, Water and Dreams

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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit--man.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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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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Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Clan of the Cave Bear

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Men are different. Yet they are people, too. Women's physical and emotional characteristics and sufferings have been studied, written about and mulled over--and over. By contrast, the problems particularly affecting men are neglected--even by themselves.

JOAN GOMEZ

Psychological and Psychiatric Problems in Men


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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The menfolk, they die, all right. And it's us women who walk around, like the Bible says, and mourn. The menfolk, they die, and it's over for them, but we women, we have to keep on living and try to forget what they done to us.

JAMES BALDWIN

Go Tell It on the Mountain

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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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Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

JOHN GRIER HIBBEN

The Problems of Philosophy

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

JOHN DONNE

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

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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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