MEN QUOTES IV

quotations about men

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


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


All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.

ALFRED TENNYSON

The Vision of Sin

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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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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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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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

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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It takes a man to know men and all the wickedness mixed up in their flesh and blood.

AMELIA E. BARR

A Singer from the Sea

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But man crouches and blushes,
Absconds and conceals;
He creepeth and peepeth,
He palters and steals;
Infirm, melancholy,
Jealous glancing around,
An oaf, an accomplice,
He poisons the ground.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Sphinx

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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, Ajax the Locrian

Tags: Sophocles


Few women think a man complete without vice.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs

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A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades Darker

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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

Tags: William Faulkner


There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

HOMER

The Iliad

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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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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

Tags: Sophocles


I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

BERTOLD BRECHT

The Exception and the Rule

Tags: Bertolt Brecht


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

Tags: Bertrand Russell