MEN QUOTES X

quotations about men

The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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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

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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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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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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Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

EDWARD ABBEY

"The Crooked Wood", The Journey Home

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I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mind to kneel before!

AYN RAND

Anthem

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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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Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.

LEONID ANDREYEV

The Life of Man

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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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There is no beast more cruel than man.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

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There is a moment when you are alone with a man and you both realize it. Alone together, there are always possibilities in that. There is a nearly painful awareness of each other. It can lead to awkwardness, to sex, or to fear, depending on the man and the situation.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures

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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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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


Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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I take it that "gentleman" is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as "a man", we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow men, but in relation to himself, -- to life -- to time -- to eternity. A cast-away lonely as Robinson Crusoe -- a prisoner immured in a dungeon for life -- nay, even a saint in Patmos, has his endurance, his strength, his faith, best described by being spoken of as "a man". I am rather weary of this word "gentlemanly" which seems to me to be often inappropriately used, and often too with such exaggerated distortion of meaning, while the full simplicity of the noun "man", and the adjective "manly" are unacknowledged.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

North and South

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There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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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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If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

The Blazing Star

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After thousands of centuries of vain efforts to come back to itself, Divinity, lost and scattered in the matter which it animates and sets in motion, finds a point of support, a sort of focus for self-concentration. This focus is man, his immortal soul singularly imprisoned in a mortal body. But each man considered individually is infinitely too limited, too small, to enclose the divine immensity; it can contain only a very small particle, immortal like the whole, but infinitely smaller than the whole. It follows that the divine being, the absolutely immaterial being, mind, is divisible like matter. Another mystery whose solution must be left to faith.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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