quotations about men
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
MARILYN MONROE
My Story
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
NORA ROBERTS
The Pagan Stone
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
Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Finisher
Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
"Le Contrat de mariage", Scènes de la vie privée
Men never try to pass themselves off for that which they are not, unless they expect to accomplish something desirable thereby.
J. B. RIPLEY
Plain Words to Young Men
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
Any scheme which makes man the head and centre of all things will fail in its applications.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Men are like pampered children, that's why women have to be more understanding and responsive to their duties at home.
SHUH
"10 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask a Second Wife", Vice, December 7, 2017
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
GRAHAM GREENE
The End of the Affair
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
When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to Maria Gisborne
Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!"
WOODY ALLEN
Husbands and Wives
If the heart of man is deprest with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
JOHN GAY
The Beggar's Opera
There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.
CATHERINE ZETA JONES
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Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realize that most of them are rotten inside.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Prisoner of Heaven
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
LAURA SWENSON
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It is far easier to know men than to know man.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Men and melons are hard to know.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Ethical Religion