MEN QUOTES XI

quotations about men

Real men don't use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer's opinion on how to put this together.

TIM ALLEN

Home Improvement

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What woman would not gladly perform a painful pilgrimage, if so she could but find her Jove, and then fall down and worship him! Alas! the actual Jupiters are very scarce.

MARY CLEMMER AMES

Outlines of Men, Women, and Things

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My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

AMY LOWELL

"Reaping", Men, Women and Ghosts

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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

North & South

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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

RITA MAE BROWN

Sudden Death

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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

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Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.

TIM ALLEN

Parade Magazine, October 27, 2002

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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Übermensch--a rope over an abyss.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

ADA LEVERSON

Tenterhooks

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Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.

LAUREN BACALL

How to Marry a Millionaire

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If Man be the Index or Epitomy of the World, as Philosophers tell us, we have only to read our selves well to be learned in it.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.

REBECCA WEST

The Paris Review, spring 1981

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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


Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

YASMINA REZA

The God of Carnage

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[Man] attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Second Sex

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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

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Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

BOB NEWHART

I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This

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All men seemed to be self-serving, selfish, insensitive pigs, just waiting for an opportunity to act like greater self-serving, selfish, insensitive pigs.

DAN SIMMONS

Ilium

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