quotations about men
Man is but a pebble dropped in a pool. And if man is but a pebble, then all his works can be no more.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Atreides
If the heart of man is deprest with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
JOHN GAY
The Beggar's Opera
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Thoughts
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
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is ... or you don't take him at all.
NORA ROBERTS
Tears of the Moon
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Small House at Allington
Good men are like good hairdressers. Hard as hell to find.
ZANE
Shame on It All
Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laulgh.
LISA GARDNER
The Perfect Husband
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
NORA ROBERTS
The Pagan Stone
Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something -- and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.
JOHN ELDREDGE
Wild at Heart
They're all alike ... at first they behave very well, they're obedient and prompt and they don't seem capable of killing a fly, but as soon as their beards appear they go to ruin.
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Men and barbed wire have their good points.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
AYN RAND
The Virtue of Selfishness
Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
letter, 1839
Men and melons are hard to know.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest
Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand
Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"The Grand Canyon"
They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.
JULIAN BARNES
Flaubert's Parrot
Men are like performing dogs, they love attention. The second they get less than they think they're entitled to at home, they're off in search of someone else, wagging their tail.
MARSHA
"Why do men cheat?", GQ, July 12, 2017