MEN QUOTES IX

quotations about men

Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Finisher

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Any scheme which makes man the head and centre of all things will fail in its applications.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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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

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They're all alike ... at first they behave very well, they're obedient and prompt and they don't seem capable of killing a fly, but as soon as their beards appear they go to ruin.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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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

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.

REBECCA WEST

The Thinking Reed

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Men and melons are hard to know.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733

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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

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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


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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Maria Gisborne

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If the heart of man is deprest with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.

JOHN GAY

The Beggar's Opera

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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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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

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Good men are like good hairdressers. Hard as hell to find.

ZANE

Shame on It All

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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

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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

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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


Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.

LAURA SWENSON

attributed, Tweet This Book: The 1,400 Greatest Quotes of All Time in 140 Characters or Less


A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Ethical Religion

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