MEN QUOTES
quotations about men
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, A Streetcar Named Desire
Men are but children of a larger growth.
JOHN DRYDEN, All For Love
Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real men ... selfless, powerful, comforting ... Too bad so many men suck!
A Man in the house is worth two in the street.
MAE WEST, Belle of the Nineties
- If the heart of man is deprest with cares,
- The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
JOHN GRAY, Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus
Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always -- one had only to dig -- be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Family Circle Magazine, Aug. 9, 2005
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
- Man, only -- rash, refined, presumptuous man,
- Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
GEORGE CANNING, Progress of Man
Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
Man is something to be surpassed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
GROUCHO MARX, as quoted in Woman's Day Magazine, May 8, 2007
Man is Nature's sole mistake.
W.S. GILBERT, Princess Ida
Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something -- and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.
JOHN ELDREDGE, Wild at Heart
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Small House at Allington
- Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day,
- Spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.
THOMAS CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope
- Men deal with life as children with their play,
- Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia
A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.
CROFT M. PENTZ, The Complete Book of Zingers
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
Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.
PAULINE RÉAGE, introduction, The Image
- 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
- All the windy ways of men
- Are but dust that rises up,
- And is lightly laid again.
ALFRED TENNYSON, The Vision of Sin
Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laulgh.
LISA GARDNER, The Perfect Husband
- 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
A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES, Ajax the Locrian [fragment]
It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Even the most staid and respectable husband likes for his wife to think he is a devil among the women.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite--a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
- Man is a living lie--a bitter jest
- Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand
- Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "The Grand Canyon"
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
- But man he made of angel form erect,
- To hold communion with the heavens above,
- And on his soul impressed his image fair,
- His own similitude of holiness,
- Of virtue, truth, and love; with reason high
- To balance right and wrong, and conscience quick
- To choose or to reject; with knowledge great,
- Prudence and wisdom, vigilance and strength,
- To guard all force or guile; and last of all,
- The highest gift of God's abundant grace,
- With perfect, free, unbias'd will. Thus man
- Was made upright, immortal made, and crown'd
- The king of all.
ROBERT POLLOK, The Course of Time
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
JOHN UPDIKE, Rabbit Redux
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, Blood Meridian
Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
ARIANA FRANKLIN, Mistress of the Art of Death
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