Men Quotes - Page 6

• If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sexy, Memorable, Math

  "Sudden Death". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1983.

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• Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Break Up, Marriage

  Quoted in PeopleWeekly, 11 Oct. 1976

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• It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Father, Son

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 2 (1937)

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• All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, Dog, Silly

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• Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

  William Shakespeare

  Turtles, Twenties, Chaste

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.

  Tim Gunn

  Doors, Complaining, Hitting

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, Simon and Schuster

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• There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Moving On, Break Up

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• The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Long, Next

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

  Billy Crystal

  Sexy, Funny Sex, Being Single

  "Fictional character: Mitch Robbins". "City Slickers", www.imdb.com. June 7, 1991.

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• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Uncles, Perfect, Mustache

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• A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Heart, Secret

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• No nice men are good at getting taxis.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Wedding, Nice, Inspiration

  Observer 1977

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• Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

  George Eliot

  Children, Growth, Men And Women

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6426, Delphi Classics

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• For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Quality, Germs

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Food, Humor

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975)

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• He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wedding, Lying

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.323

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Knows, Every Man

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• Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Years, Age

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.43, BookBaby

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• I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Running, Fall

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Lying

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [329]

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• Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

  Kin Hubbard

  Humorous, Maturity, Boys

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• Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Numbers, Perfect

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