Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II
— Romeo and Juliet
Quotes About Men
Martin Luther King Jr. drew a line between scientific power and spiritual power. His observation that our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power, that we have guided missiles and misguided men, still lands because it refuses to celebrate achievement without asking about its moral direction. The theme runs from public responsibility to private longing, from the man who wields state power to the man who stumbles through marriage.
Karl Marx insisted that history does nothing, that it does not possess immense riches and does not fight battles; it is men, real, living, who do all this. Thomas Jefferson declared he had no ambition to govern men, calling it a painful and thankless office. Oscar Wilde observed that men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious, and both are disappointed. Sigmund Freud wrote that a man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Across these views men show up as agents, reluctant rulers, tired actors in domestic drama, and creatures shaped by childhood. Dante compared their customs to leaves that change on the bough, some of which go and others come, which holds the variety neatly.
Karl Marx insisted that history does nothing, that it does not possess immense riches and does not fight battles; it is men, real, living, who do all this. Thomas Jefferson declared he had no ambition to govern men, calling it a painful and thankless office. Oscar Wilde observed that men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious, and both are disappointed. Sigmund Freud wrote that a man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Across these views men show up as agents, reluctant rulers, tired actors in domestic drama, and creatures shaped by childhood. Dante compared their customs to leaves that change on the bough, some of which go and others come, which holds the variety neatly.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
— The Picture of Dorian Gray
The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.
— Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward.
— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
— Orlando
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
— Persuasion
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
— Les Misérables
How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.
— Notebooks 1935-1942
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
— Anna Karenina
Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.
— The Fellowship of the Ring
— The Impact of Science on Society
But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.
— The Mystery of the Blue Train
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
— The Republic
This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
— One Hundred Years of Solitude
Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
— The Little Prince
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
— The Musgrave Ritual
He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
— Madame Bovary
Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.
— The Rough Riders
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
— The Three Musketeers
Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.
— Human Happiness
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
— The Second Sex
Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
— Père Goriot
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
— Dubliners