MEN QUOTES VI

quotations about men

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The Small House at Allington

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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 seems to be made neither to live alone nor with others.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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The hardest man ... is but a shell.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius

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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

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No man ever reaches manhood
till a woman's tenderness
Is a part of his possession.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Conquerors"

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A hard man is good to find.

MAE WEST

attributed, She Always Knew How: Mae West, a Personal Biography

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Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

JULIAN BARNES

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

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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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The toolmakers had been remade by their own tools. For in using clubs and flints, their hands had developed a dexterity found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, permitting them to make still better tools, which in turn had developed their limbs and brains yet further. It was an accelerating, cumulative process; and at its end was Man.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

GEORGE CARLIN

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

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Man is not only the supreme result of evolution thus far, -- he is the final result of evolution; there is nothing beyond him. If one asks, How do we know that there may not be something inconceivable to us beyond? the answer is, We cannot know; but in our attempt to unriddle the enigma of the universe we must think with our faculties and be governed by our limitations, and we can conceive nothing higher than man. We can conceive of man infinitely improved; we can conceive of him cultivated, developed, enlarged, enriched, purified; but of anything essentially higher than man -- no. Nothing can be conceived higher than to think, to will, to love. If we look back along the pages of history, these two truths we have learned from the universe: first, that all its processes have been for the purpose of manifesting One who thinks, who wills, who loves; second, that the purpose in the manifestation of this One is the creation of a race of free moral agents, who can themselves think and will and love. The inorganic world existed before the vegetable, and the vegetable world existed before the animal, and the lower animal existed before man, but man exists for nothing beyond. The very topmost round of the ladder has been reached: to know right from wrong, to do the right and eschew the wrong, to understand invisible distinctions, to perceive the invisible world, to struggle toward something higher and yet higher, and yet always to know, to resolve, to love, -- this is supreme.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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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


If sense was gunpowder ever one of you men put together wouldn't have enough to load a round of birdshot.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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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

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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades Darker

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It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

NORA ROBERTS

Happy Ever After

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