MEN QUOTES VIII

quotations about men


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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)
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The Mask


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A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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The average age at which a man marries is thirty years; the average age at which his passions, his most violent desires for genesial delight are developed, is twenty years. Now during the ten fairest years of his life, during the green season in which his beauty, his youth and his wit make him more dangerous to husbands than at any other epoch of his life, his finds himself without any means of satisfying legitimately that irresistible craving for love which burns in his whole nature. During this time, representing the sixth part of human life, we are obliged to admit that the sixth part or less of our total male population and the sixth part which is the most vigorous is placed in a position which is perpetually exhausting for them, and dangerous for society.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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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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They're all alike ... at first they behave very well, they're obedient and prompt and they don't seem capable of killing a fly, but as soon as their beards appear they go to ruin.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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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 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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Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laulgh.

LISA GARDNER

The Perfect Husband

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Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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When my son said, "I can't stop thinking about girls," I said, "That's not gonna stop. Congratulations. You're in the club. From now until the day you die, one way or another you'll be thinking about girls."

PAUL REISER

Good Housekeeping, June 2011

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They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.

JULIAN BARNES

Flaubert's Parrot

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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.

JOHN DRYDEN

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

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Let each man think himself an act of God.
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Man is but a pebble dropped in a pool. And if man is but a pebble, then all his works can be no more.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides

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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale

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Men only disagree
Of Creatures rational, though under hope
Of heavenly Grace; and God proclaiming peace,
Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife
Among themselves, and levy cruel wars,
Wasting the Earth, each other to destroy:
As if (which might induce us to accord)
Man had not hellish foes enough besides,
That day and night for his destruction wait.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

CATHERINE ZETA JONES

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