Quotes about men

"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction."

Aleichem, Sholom on men
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"Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate."

Angelis, Barbara De on men
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"Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it."

Anouilh, Jean on men   

"Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic."

Atwood, Margaret on men   

"Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done."

Auden, W. H. on men   

"The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories."

Auden, W. H. on men   

"Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping."

Baldwin, Faith on men   

"Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him."

Barrie, Sir James M. on men
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"The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world."

Bernikow, Louise on men   

"A true man hates no one."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on men
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"The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on men   

"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."

Burroughs, John on men   

"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."

Caesar, Julius on men
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"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries."

Cher on men
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"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on men   

"Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear."

Cope, Wendy on men   

"Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender."

Crisp, Quentin on men   

"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."

Day, Doris on men
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"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."

Duras, Marguerite on men
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"Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while."

Duras, Marguerite on men   

"Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free."

Dworkin, Andrea on men   

"In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human."

Dworkin, Andrea on men
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"Someone has to stand up for wimps."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on men   

"Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on men   

"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."

Eliot, George on men   

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"Men are what their mothers made them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on men
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"Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on men   

"Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for doing the best for his children?"

Figes, Eva on men   

"There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded."

Fleming, Robert B. on men
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"The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else."

Ford, Anna on men   

"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim."

Friedan, Betty on men   

"The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it."

Gable, Clark on men
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"Macho doesn't prove mucho."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on men
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"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."

Garfield, James A. on men   

"Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action."

Gilder, George on men   

"The little man is still a man."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on men
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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

Greer, Germaine on men   

"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."

Greer, Germaine on men
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"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on men
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"Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!"

Hall, S. C. on men