MEN QUOTES V

quotations about men


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

DANIEL HANDLER
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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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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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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


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

MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain on Common Sense

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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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We are not men, but promises of men.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Few women think a man complete without vice.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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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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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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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 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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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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Men and barbed wire have their good points.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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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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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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Some men are like a church-organ--you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box--they have four or five thin jingles.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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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 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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