Men Quotes

To a misogynist: To err is woman.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But the reality is that women today do not think of themselves in the context of helping their man. Women today have been brainwashed into thinking that efforts in that direction are in the category of oppression, subservience, and catering to frail male egos. It is sad that this is the prevalent point of view, because interdependence is what ultimately feeds both the man and the woman what they truly need to be happy.

~ Laura Schlessinger

She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle and meek and did a great deal of sewing and looked after the poor and laid their tender napes beneath a husband’s booted foot, and even if he brought home cabfuls of half-naked chorus girls and had them dance on the rich round mahogany dining-table (rosily reflecting great pearly hams and bums in its polished depths). Or, drunk to a frenzy, raped the kitchen-maid before the morning assembly of servants and children and her black silk-dressed self (gathered for prayers). Or forced her to stitch, on shirts, her fingers to rags to pay his gambling debts.Husbands were a force of nature or an act of God; like an earthquake or the dreaded consumption, to be borne with, to be meekly acquiesced to, to be impregnated by as frequently as Nature would allow. It took the mindless persistence, the dogged imbecility of the grey tides, to love a husband.

~ Angela Carter

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

~ Margaret Way

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Don't get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

He's such a dragHe's not insaneIt's just that everybodyHas to feel his pain.

~ Elvis Costello

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

~ Marlon James

I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned is that you dig a little and you find they're all the same, give or take. Some are more polished, granted. They may come with a little bit of charm-- Or a lot -- and that can fool you. But really they're all unhappy little boys sloshing around in their own rage. They feel wronged. They haven't been given their due. No one loved them enough. Of course they expect you to love them. They want to be held, rocked, reassured. But it's a mistake to give it to them. They can't accept it. They can't accept the very thing they're needing. They end up hating you for it. And it never ends because they can't hate you enough. It never ends-- the misery, the apologies, the promises, the reneging, the wretchedness of it all. My first husband was like that.

~ Khaled Hosseini

As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think that we are psycho. But what if that's not true? Have you ever stopped to think that? What if it's like there's a beautiful little bird in our hearts and we're too afraid to let anyone see it in there? What's wrong with letting anyone know that there's a bird in your chest? Maybe there are lots of wrong ones, but maybe there's one that's just for you— the one who won't laugh or run away when he sees that little bird. After all, it’s just a pretty bird!

~ C. Joybell C.

Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.

~ Joe Hill

Man be my metaphor’

~ Dylan Thomas

Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, phoney-baloney preachers-most of 'em are men, and most of 'em lie like rugs

~ Carl Hiaasen

Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.

~ Elizabeth Peters

A little girl learns about men through her Father. Sam Cameron

~ Lesley Pearse

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

~ Iris Murdoch

The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.

~ Tom Robbins

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

~ Ninon De L'enclos

There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

~ Margaret Way

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

~ Bernard Malamud

It was men, not God, who had done those things...

~ Kameron Hurley

Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military intervention depends upon a belief in the legitimacy of armed violence in resolving political problems, which in turn depends upon our adherence to particular ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman.

~ Nadje Al-Ali

Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.

~ Émile Zola

Love is bold. Love is blind.

~ Arzum Uzun

They came and they went; they ached and pained. They laughed privately and cried to themselves as if heeding a way- off silent call. They were forever childish, sweet and convulsive. They heard sound the way dog heard sound. They were like the moon- they changed every eight days.

~ Robert Olmstead

Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing state power; those conservative practices were not an inherent feature of a predominantly Muslim country.

~ Nadje Al-Ali

A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.

~ Rosalind Coward

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

~ John Eldredge

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

~ Steve Kluger

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

~ Khaled Hosseini

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

~ George R.r. Martin

Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy,black sheep,the one your mother always warned you about.He had only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love

~ Paige Weaver

Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.

~ Nick Tosches

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

~ Anonymous

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.

~ Peadar Ó Guilín

don't sulk. you're acting just like a man.

~ Janet Fitch