MEN QUOTES VI

quotations about men

The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

MARK TWAIN

Autobiographical Dictation

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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


Man, a wild beast, cousin of the gorilla, has emerged from the profound darkness of animal instinct into the light of the mind, which explains in a wholly natural way all his past mistakes and partially consoles us for his present errors.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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Men are like your smart phone. Pick up your phone and get into Settings. I can bet that you only know the functionality of that smartphone up to 50 per cent. There are certain functions in that phone you have never tried and you do not know what they are used for. You have never ventured beyond the normal stuff that an ordinary hand set does. Yet, that is your phone. That is exactly the same scenario. That man in your house, plans, thoughts or heart, he remains your man, but I can assure you do not know him 100 per cent.

TONY MASIKONDE

"Ladies, here's why men aren't an open book", The Standard, August 14, 2017


Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

GEORGE CARLIN

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

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This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate over ideas, he hurls scorn and mockery at another's work, he finds the one way, the true way, for himself, and calls all others false--yet in the billion books upon the shelves there is not one that can tell him how to draw a single fleeting breath in peace and comfort. He makes histories of the universe, he directs the destiny of the nations, but he does not know his own history, and he cannot direct his own destiny with dignity or wisdom for ten consecutive minutes.

THOMAS WOLFE

You Can't Go Home Again

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The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival -- even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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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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Man, only -- rash, refined, presumptuous man,
Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

GEORGE CANNING

Progress of Man

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Men are unwise and curiously planned.

DORIS LESSING

The Cleft: A Novel

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Being a Man is always acting like a Man.

JOSEPH GREENE

The ComMANdments: The Official Guide Book to Man Rules


Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The Small House at Allington

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A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades Darker

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

IMMANUEL KANT

Lectures on Ethics

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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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Do you know how hard it is to find a decent man in this town? Most of them think monogamy is some kind of wood.

PEGGY BRANDT (AMY YASBECK)

The Mask


Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always -- one had only to dig -- be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.

GUNTER GRASS

The Rat

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Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

EMIL CIORAN

The Trouble with Being Born

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