Men Quotes And Sayings

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“Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men’s behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.” 
– Francesca M. Cancian

“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.” 
– Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is something to be surpassed.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.”
– Fulke Greville

“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

“Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.”
– Fulke Greville

“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
– Gaston Bachelard

“Man, only — rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation’s plan.”
– George Canning

“If I laugh at you, O fellow-men! if I trace with curious interest your labyrinthine self-delusions, note the inconsistencies in your zealous adhesions, and smile at your helpless endeavours in a rashly chosen part, it is not that I feel myself aloof from you: the more intimately I seem to discern your weaknesses, the stronger to me is the proof that I share them. How otherwise could I get the discernment?–for even what we are averse to, what we vow not to entertain, must have shaped or shadowed itself within us as a possibility before we can think of exorcising it. No man can know his brother simply as a spectator. Dear blunderers, I am one of you.”
– George Eliot

“I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don’t know one who wouldn’t fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.” 
– George Jean Nathan

“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.” 
– Germaine Greer

“Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It’s the men who are discriminated against.  They can’t bear children.  And no one’s likely to do anything about that.” 
– Golda Meir

“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
– Groucho Marx

“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

“A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest.” 
– Helen Rowland

“A man’s heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.”
– Helen Rowland

“It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.” 
– Helen Rowland

“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
– Helen Rowland

“The hardest task in a girl’s life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.” 
– Helen Rowland

“A man always blames the woman who fools him.  In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.” 
– Henry Louis Mencken

“All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit–man.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.” 
– Ian Fleming

“Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.”
– Immanuel Kant

“My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.” 
– Indira Gandhi

“We are not men, but promises of men.”
– Ivan Panin

“If men had more up top we’d need less up front.” 
– Jaci Stephen

“Women may be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships.” 
– James Shubert

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