MEN QUOTES VII

quotations about men

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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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 woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

GASTON BACHELARD

introduction, Water and Dreams

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The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.

DONALD BARTHELME

"Critique de la Vie Quotidienne"

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From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.

JOHN DRYDEN

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

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Man, a wild beast, cousin of the gorilla, has emerged from the profound darkness of animal instinct into the light of the mind, which explains in a wholly natural way all his past mistakes and partially consoles us for his present errors.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

IMMANUEL KANT

Lectures on Ethics

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If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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We are socialized into thinking that men are like wine -- they get better with time. Women are like cheese -- they get blue veins and start to stink.

MONA CHALABI

"Why I refuse to date an older man", The Straits Times, October 22, 2017


What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall be man to the Übermensch: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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When my son said, "I can't stop thinking about girls," I said, "That's not gonna stop. Congratulations. You're in the club. From now until the day you die, one way or another you'll be thinking about girls."

PAUL REISER

Good Housekeeping, June 2011

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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.

GUNTER GRASS

The Rat

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The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

MARK TWAIN

Autobiographical Dictation

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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Man, only -- rash, refined, presumptuous man,
Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

GEORGE CANNING

Progress of Man

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Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

"Le Contrat de mariage", Scènes de la vie privée

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We are not men, but promises of men.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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