MEN QUOTES IV

quotations about men

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

MAUREEN DOWD

Are Men Necessary?

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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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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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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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Welcome to the mystery that is men. I think it goes something like, they grow body hair, they lose all ability to tell you what they really want.

BUFFY SUMMERS

"Phases", Buffy the Vampire Slayer


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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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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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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The hardest man ... is but a shell.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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

MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain on Common Sense

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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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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Raising the Wind", Saturday Courier, October 14, 1843

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