Men Quotes - Page 8

• I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.

  Frantz Fanon

  Color, Forever, Tools

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “Black skin, white masks”

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• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

  John Burroughs

  Nails, Literature

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• Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

  Samuel Butler

  Corny, Banality, Supreme

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4298, Delphi Classics

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• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Clever, Clever Man

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.278

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• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, History, World

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  Jackie Mason

  Marriage, Funny Love, Cheating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

  John Steinbeck

  Work, Wrath, Literature

  Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14

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• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Witty, Work

  Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

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• When women go wrong, men go right after them.

  Mae West

  Funny, Women, Memorable

  She Done Him Wrong (motion picture) (1933)

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• MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Animal, Thinking, Earth

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

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• A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

  Roseanne Barr

  Guy, Good Man, Doughnut

  "Roseanne". Comedy, 2018.

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• Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

  Ariana Franklin

  Pits, Paradise

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.90, Penguin

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• Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.

  Dave Barry

  Numbers, Lust, Zombie

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.40, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Man is something to be surpassed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  'Also Sprach Zarathustra' (1883) prologue, sect. 3

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• Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

  George Canning

  Mars, Creation, Plans

  'The Progress of Man' (1799) l. 55

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• Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

  Ian Fleming

  Women, Light, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

  Lisa Gardner

  Laughing, Complaining, Wimps

  Lisa Gardner (2004). “The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel”, p.10, Bantam

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

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Awkward, Virtue, Conquest

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• A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

  Sophocles

  Shadow, Breaths

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!".

  Woody Allen

  Eggs, Numbers, Making Love

  Husbands and Wives, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sex, Excuse, Easy

  Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, New York Review of Books

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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fighting, Order, Littles

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• The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.

  Harry Gordon Johnson

  Girl, Angel, College

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