MEN QUOTES IV

quotations about men

While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man",
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"The Conqueror Worm"

Tags: Edgar Allan Poe


I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

MAUREEN DOWD

Are Men Necessary?

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In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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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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All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.

ALFRED TENNYSON

The Vision of Sin

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

JOHN DONNE

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Tags: John Donne


Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Jo's Boys

Tags: Louisa May Alcott


Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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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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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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Man, being the strongest of all animals, differs from the rest; he was obliged to be his own domesticator; he had to tame himself.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics

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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Raising the Wind", Saturday Courier, October 14, 1843

Tags: Edgar Allan Poe


Few women think a man complete without vice.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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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 man is nothing but breath and shadow.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, Ajax the Locrian

Tags: Sophocles


Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

Tags: José Saramago


Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

MAE WEST

Belle of the Nineties

Tags: Mae West


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 grows used to everything, the scoundrel.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Crime and Punishment

Tags: Fyodor Dostoevsky