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"

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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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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

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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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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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Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.

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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain on Common Sense

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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 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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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

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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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There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

HOMER

The Iliad

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