MEN QUOTES IV

quotations about men

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

JOHN GRIER HIBBEN

The Problems of Philosophy

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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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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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Men changed whatever they set hand to. They wrought their magic on beasts, to make them dull and patient. They brought fire and the reek of smoke to the dales. They brought lines and order to the curve of the hills. Most of all they brought the chill of iron, to sweep away the ancient shadows.

C. J. CHERRYH

The Dreamstone

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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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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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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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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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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


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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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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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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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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A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades Darker

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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


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

BERTOLD BRECHT

The Exception and the Rule

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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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This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate over ideas, he hurls scorn and mockery at another's work, he finds the one way, the true way, for himself, and calls all others false--yet in the billion books upon the shelves there is not one that can tell him how to draw a single fleeting breath in peace and comfort. He makes histories of the universe, he directs the destiny of the nations, but he does not know his own history, and he cannot direct his own destiny with dignity or wisdom for ten consecutive minutes.

THOMAS WOLFE

You Can't Go Home Again

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