MEN QUOTES XIII

quotations about men


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There is a great deal of human nature in man.

CHARLES KINGSLEY
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It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

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God would never have made Man to that height and excellence of nature if he had deigned him only to worldly drudgery and employment here below.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

ROSEANNE BARR

attributed, Soaring Solo

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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 is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit Redux

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

attributed, Family Circle Magazine, August 9, 2005

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