MEN QUOTES VI

quotations about men

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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Like it or not the role of masculinity is changing and many men are like a deer in headlights and don't which way to turn.

CHRIS FORTE

"Grateful: The Good Men Project Community", The Good Men Project, August 4, 2017


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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Being a Man is always acting like a Man.

JOSEPH GREENE

The ComMANdments: The Official Guide Book to Man Rules


A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades Darker

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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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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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Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

MAE WEST

Belle of the Nineties

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Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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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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If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Religion and Science

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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Jo's Boys

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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, Ajax the Locrian

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Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

JULIAN BARNES

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

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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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The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.

DONALD BARTHELME

"Critique de la Vie Quotidienne"

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

IMMANUEL KANT

Lectures on Ethics

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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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We are socialized into thinking that men are like wine -- they get better with time. Women are like cheese -- they get blue veins and start to stink.

MONA CHALABI

"Why I refuse to date an older man", The Straits Times, October 22, 2017