Men Quotes

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

~ Andrew Smith

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

~ Nenia Campbell

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

~ Esmeralda Santiago

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

~ Jessica Valenti

The women’s entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to win their love and respect, to raise them as children, care for them as adults… these are women’s duties in all ages and these are what they should be taught from childhood.

~ Jacques Rousseau

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

~ Pratik Patil

The official recruiting process for their posse began. Because Carlos, Narc, and Trevor each had high SQs, Heeb and Evan reasoned that adding the three to their group would raise the average SQ of each group member (much the way that colleges recruit individuals with higher test scores to increase the average test scores of their matriculated students).

~ Zack Love

She met a dashing man —he was, a dash.

~ Timothy Joshua

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

~ Esmeralda Santiago

Stars are dusts from wise men.

~ Jane Bulos

By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.

~ T.f. Hodge

Dear God, he prayed irreverently, was her blouse even legal?

~ Sheri Webber

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

~ Stewart O'nan

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?

~ Stewart O'nan

What’s a TH?”“A Traffic Hazard,” Heeb clarified.“Oh you mean because the woman is so hot she’ll take your eyes off the road?” Narc confirmed.“Exactly.

~ Zack Love

My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery...but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.

~ Ama Ata Aidoo

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

~ Stephanie Dray

The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat.

~ Shannon L. Alder

On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby.

~ Brennan Manning

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.

~ Sabine Shah

What’s SQ?” asked Evan.“Sexual Quotient.”“What’s that?”“Basically, it’s your odds of getting laid. Everyone has an SQ. just like everyone has an IQ.”“I’ve never heard that term before.”“That’s because I made it up.”“That figures. Finally applying your actuarial skills to what really matters, eh?

~ Zack Love

They say “as brave as lion”, they say “as clever as fox”, they say “ as friendly as dog” but nobody says “as something good as man”.

~ Amit Kalantri

...the man to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.

~ Thomas Harris

Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?”She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her face.“What’s it like?”“Hard,” she replied.

~ Zack Love

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

~ Robert Jordan

Many men understand and appreciate that seduction first makes women feel uncomfortable. What these men do instead is focus on comfort first.What these men don't realize is that women of beauty get bombarded by these nice guys every day, and it can grow quite tiresome. While not as offensive as these seducer, the nice guy is no less a bother. There are simply too many nice guys approaching them in a day to indulge in the same old lengthy dialogue time after time. Without attraction first, simply saying, Hi, I'm Joe. What's your name? will smack of every nice guy before you. Why would a woman who isn't attracted to you care what your name is or bother to even remember it? Why would she divulge personal information just because you asked?

~ Mystery

And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as “penilosophy.

~ Zack Love

But despite these and many other differences, Evan and Heeb had become close friends – an improbability that could have been produced only by the even greater improbabilities that brought them together.

~ Zack Love

She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there were more guy programmers than women. It was a very hazy theory, and she didn't like it, but she had pretty much convinced herself it was true, although she couldn't bear to think of sharing it with anybody, because it was a lot better to think that there were social reasons why girls didn't usually become code monkeys than to think there were biological reasons.

~ Maureen F. Mchugh

You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

~ Miranda July

It was pride that changed angels into devils, it is humility that makes men as angels.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

~ Plato

I’m an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.

~ Sarah Noffke

The mirror of life shows you woman or man,But in the heart of the Soul you are neither. This is why Love is blind.

~ C.c. Campbell

I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous. Then wild and wicked thoughts come into my heart. I don't want to be good and respectable. (I never can be sensible, I'm told; so that don't matter.) I want to put on lavender-colored tights, with red velvet breeches and a green doublet slashed with yellow; to have a light-blue silk cloak on my shoulder, and a black eagle's plume waving from my hat, and a big sword, and a falcon, and a lance, and a prancing horse, so that I might go about and gladden the eyes of the people. Why should we all try to look like ants crawling over a dust-heap? Why shouldn't we dress a little gayly? I am sure if we did we should be happier. True, it is a little thing, but we are a little race, and what is the use of our pretending otherwise and spoiling fun? Let philosophers get themselves up like old crows if they like. But let me be a butterfly.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support—all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her. She thus has to be described first as men dream of her since her being-for-men is one of the essential factors of her concrete condition.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.-Nina

~ Karen Greco

The boys on the front had magazines with pinups, and they talked about how one day they would score women like that, but they’re kids. They don’t know what love is. Here they learn what hate is, and I am so sad that they might never know love because hate came first. Maybe they will miss out on having a woman like you, and I feel sorry for them.

~ A.s. King

Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.

~ Jenna Alatari