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We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
— Christina Hoff Sommers
Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy
—  those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. The marks of that so-called intuition are simply a sharp and accurate perception of reality, a habitual immunity to emotional enchantment, a relentless capacity for distinguishing clearly between the appearance and the substance. The appearance, in the normal family circle, is a hero, a magnifico, a demigod. The substance is a poor mountebank.
— H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Here is a piece of advice. Never pay attention to what a man says when he comes. Anything might be blurted out at that moment, and it rarely means anything.
— Claire Kent, Escorted
God will bless you and your marriage when you follow His blueprint.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Men, we don't need you in shining armor.We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.
— Virginia Madsen
In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
A Beautiful Woman Is A Baggage. Thank God Yours Is A Suit Case
— Maurys Gaucho
Penn is the brains behind this event. On behalf of my brothers, and all of the kids in the program, I’d like to say thank you.” Neil winked. “It seems that the four of us just can’t function without a strong, focused woman telling us what to do.
— Gina Gordon, Recipe for Satisfaction
No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.
— Amit Kalantri
In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism
— Amit Kalantri
You could say I’m so manly I don’t even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions
— Ben Mitchell
The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through the unexpected, then you have a confidence based on the fact that you know exactly where God wants you to be.
— Jim George, One-Minute Insights for Men
The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.
— Jim George, One-Minute Insights for Men
You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.
— Ellen O' Connell
Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Love Is How You Dress
— Maurys Gaucho
Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too
—  her father.
Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.
— Alice Hoffman, The Probable Future
When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
— Elizabeth George, Loving God with All Your Mind
Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.
— Albert Camus
The heart is the place where our life gets its direction.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.
— Elizabeth George, A Wife After God's Own Heart
In the long run, We Realize that life without one gender,would end up boring
— Maurys Gaucho
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
Time is redeemed when you make the most of your life by fulfilling God's purposes.
— Elizabeth George, One-Minute Inspirations for Women
Thanks be to God that, even though at times we may “forget” Him, He never forgets us.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walking
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing. Sheba said that she had sensed something resentful about him, as if he begrudged her for having the power to attract him.
— Zoë Heller
When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.
— Kyle Schmalenberg
When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.
— Jim George, One-Minute Insights for Men
A domesticated man makes my lady parts beep!
— Tanya Masse, Stripping Away the Insanity of Life & Parenthood!
He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into a sort of wounded dignity, which was centered in the darting passes of his deep-set, dark eyes.
— Dan Lopez, Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea
I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.
— Jim George, A Young Man After God's Own Heart
Love Is How You How You Dress
— Maurys Gaucho
If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
A pair of great heels was much more satisfying than a man. They lasted longer, and better yet, they didn’t leave me for someone prettier.
— Cindi Madsen, Cinderella Screwed Me Over
He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
It seems the guys who are best at sex approach it with the serenity of a Buddhist monk. They are never going to beg for it and when the time is right (and all signs point to yes), then they take charge masterfully and completely.
— Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.
— Rachel  Thompson, Broken Pieces
She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door.
— Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid.
— Dani Alexander, Shattered Glass
Men are—by nature—stupid creatures.I think I can speak with some experience on this. Both as a man and well, a gay man. It's bad enough to be one of the stupid creatures. It's quite another to be attracted to them. Cursed at both ends: brain and dick.
— Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret
Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.
— Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
Ben & Jerry's Lifestyle: Lots of options, exciting flavors and never repeating a scoop.
— C.S.  James, Blue Ice
I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
— Terry McMillan, Who Asked You?
Oba-sans, to put it in somewhat difficult terms, are life-forms that have stopped evolving. And anyone can turn into an Oba-san. Young women, of course, but even young men, even middle-aged men —even children. You turn into an Oba-san the instant you lose the will to evolve.
— Ryū Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era
Who she walks with, will tell you if she's worth it.
— Dustin Cruz
That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Men would have been badly in trouble if their hands didn’t fit their dick.
— M.F. Moonzajer
That Damon Matthews,” Linda spat. “You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ‘ damn’ as in ‘damn, that kid’s a worthless sonovabitch’.
— Kristen Ashley, The Gamble
Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.
— Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
— Marlo Thomas
People think needing a man is weak. I believe what is truly weak is not ALLOWING ourselves to surrender to our deepest desire to have a protective, strong, caring, masculine man in our life.
— Renee Wade
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.
— Max Born
A woman should never have a need to fear the man who holds her in his arms
—  neither his hands that touches her.
Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.
— Amit Kalantri
We may also discover that sexual abuse helps to explain the high prevalence rates of eating disorders among women and may lend some insight into why we are starting to see more documentation of eating disorders among boys as we see the reports of sexual abuse for male children increasing. Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders.
— Karen A. Duncan, Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women
Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about a woman sitting next to him, about her feelings, about the life she is leading, she will generally tell him anything he cares to know.
— Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction
— Jack Donovan
By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?
— C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote.
— Genna Rulon, Only for You
Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'--just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen.
— Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be—it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can’t mean everything, and it has always meant something
— Jack Donovan, The Way of Men
As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.
— Robert Crais, The Forgotten Man
When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man—not merely a person—has to do with that role
— Jack Donovan, The Way of Men
A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!
— Dylan Moran
He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''And men never do,' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.
— Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.
— Nike Thaddeus
Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big. strong, stiff hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye whaire ye stand, where yir fuckin parameters ur.
— Irvine Welsh, Porno
Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man".
— Russell Beland
I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd be perfect.
— Julie Klausner, I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
My friend Annabel calls it "Reverse Perfectionism" - if a man thinks he can't do something perfectly, he'd rather not do it at all…
— Shelli NT
You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.
— Habeeb Akande
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
— Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
(On differences between men and boys) Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you. Men wear clothes that have never been worn by anyone else before.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
... Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.'Joanna was half serious, half laughing.It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery.'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.'A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...'She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery.
— Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.
— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman, The Forbidden Secrets of the Goody Box: Relationship Advice That Your Father Didn't Tell You and Your Mother Didn't Know
Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.
— Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic
She's no angel.He's no saint.
— Elvis Costello
She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.
— Angela Carter, Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.
— Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving
She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.
— Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving
If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!
— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman, The Forbidden Secrets of the Goody Box: Relationship Advice That Your Father Didn't Tell You and Your Mother Didn't Know
It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.
— Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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, Shadow Dance
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, Hunter's Moon
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, The Forbidden Secrets of the Goody Box: Relationship Advice That Your Father Didn't Tell You and Your Mother Didn't Know
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, And the Mountains Echoed
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, NOS4A2
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, Flush
Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.
— Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
A little girl learns about men through her Father." Sam Cameron
— Lesley Pearse, Georgia
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 Sea, the Sea
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, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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, The Lacuna
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, Bauhinia Junction
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, The Fixer
It was men, not God, who had done those things...
— Kameron Hurley, Infidel
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, What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
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, Pot Luck
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, Coal Black Horse
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, What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
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, Wild At Heart
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.
— Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year
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, And the Mountains Echoed
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, A Storm of Swords
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, Me and the Devil
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, Of Men and Women
Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.
— Peadar Ó Guilín, The Deserter
don't sulk. you're acting just like a man.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least to the passes of the Mountains, and maybe beyond. For Men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
They are friends because they are both beautiful specimens of maledom.""Beautiful specimens of maledom?""That's right. And there are very few of those species in existence presently, so they need to stick together in order to survive.
— Krista McGee, Starring Me
But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Physical attraction did its part to glue them together, but something stronger than sexual attraction sealed the bond. When men and women grow apart, it is for the same reason they are drawn together; because they are finally, inherently too different. Friendships among women, on the other hand, were burdened by similarity.
— Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics
Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.
— Himmilicious
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.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
It’s almost as if all the sleazy men in this country attended the same seminar, where they learned that all American women go to Italy to sleep with them. The teacher at the seminar told them, “You don’t need to learn English to seduce an American woman, you only need to learn one word: ‘bella.’ If you say it, their belts will snap and pants fall from their hips.If I ever find that seminar teacher, I’m going to kick him in the shin.
— Rita Stradling
A real man can use power, rather than let power use him
— Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.
— Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice
In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex.
— John Lanchester, Capital
Ames clucked his tongue, “You know, not all of us are so evil minded. You’ve just met the wrong ones.” He meant guys. “You’re all the same.” I should know.“Not all of us,” he said too soft but I heard. “But judgment before proven can eat one up with anger. Sometimes you just have to take a chance. Trust someone.
— Cyndi Goodgame, Denial
Some people use power, whilst they are some who let power use them.
— Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.
— Margaret Way, Eagle's Ridge
I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. It’s different for old men. We have more old wounds from these dreams.
— Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad
The only monsters I have ever known were men.
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things?
— Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert
Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.
— Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language........When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversion, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations have been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know they existed...... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one......So ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting fate to think to yourself, "The man can't possibly be that stupid!"But yes. Yes, he can.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
— Gerald Morris, The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.
— Honor Raconteur, Jaunten
He had a thousand-year-old stare.
— Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife
Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.
— Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them
— Margaret  Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.
— Michel de Montaigne
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
— Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife
If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.
— Shannon L. Alder
... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.
— Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War
He's a man," Themla said."I guess that explains it.""Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike.
— Dean Koontz
I never know what I’m going to want to curl up in bed with.” I shrug.“How about a man?” she retorts.
— Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy
No more men. I swear it. They’re nothing but trouble. Them, and their damned penises.
— Rosanna Leo, The Selkie
She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.
— Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners
He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.
— Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic
He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who’s nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of life was mother to daughter, daughter to mother. Fathers and sons belonged in the shadows with the dogs and livestock, like the retriever growling at Midwife Bell's unfamiliar car from the window of my neighbours' living room.
— J.G. Ballard, The Kindness of Women
Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams.
— Habeeb Akande
The laws of men are not infallible.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
— Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
— Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
— John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
I don't love men that love other women. I think more of myself then that.
— Rose The Vampire Diaries
It wasn’t because you weren’t beautiful, talented, funny, creative or had everything in common. It was because some men prefer plain vanilla ice cream. It’s predictable and a safe choice. Confident and adventurous men prefer the complexity and layers of a sundae, even the ones sprinkled with a little bit of nuts on top.
— Shannon L. Alder
Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.
— Habeeb Akande
Yes, women have always had secrets and always will. I'm afraid men would be very distressed to learn what their darlings were thinking. Frankly, I don't think men are strong enough to bear the shock.
— Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy
Men have grown embarrassingly weak, but only through observation. Their resolve can easily be broken by a woman. Their emotions can be easily manipulated by a woman. Their power can be easily taken by a woman. Their pride can be easily stripped by a woman. Their entire life can easily be ruined by a woman. While physically stronger, their manipulative prowess can be wittingly outclassed by a woman. And while their dreams are stronger, the realities of women are stronger.
— Lionel Suggs
I like the way men cry. They're efficient.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants
Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that's all about being straight and good. I think most people miss that about you, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me.
— Mark Andrus, As Good as It Gets
I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will. I find it stranger that those same women, are ignorant to the belief that this isn't his real face. Most women don't know what their man looks like when he's not in-love with them. But when that mystical spell is broken, it's like a person seeing the true face of God; only realizing that you simply never understood...their real self.
— Lionel Suggs
Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f
— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?
— Philippa Gregory
Don’t go to Men about God. Go to God about Men.
— Todd Stocker
Real MEN don't need a woman covering for him because a Real MAN IS a woman's covering!
— Sanjo Jendayi
First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you're living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of frilly throw pillows, experiencing the frequency of sex that can only be charted by Halley's Comet. and you're wondering: How did I get here?
— Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish
Men were born to protect and love, and our women help us to serve a higher purpose.
— Missy Lyons, Alien Promise
Chase? He actually said that to you?” She frowned. “Yes.” “When?” “When we were in bed.” “Great timing,” Dee muttered. “Just like a man. We’ll just file him away under D for dumb ass and move on. There are plenty of fish in the sea. Or better yet, S for sicko.
— Lindsey Brookes, Hooked on You
Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get on. And that bit about them coming in threes, well, that's just a myth.
— Eleanor Prescott, Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of Dating
WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:In your case, ED is not a man's name.
— Robin  Glasser, My Life as a Concubine
They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart -- callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. -- From the short story What Rough Beast
— Michael  Hibbard, Immortal Memories: Volume I
A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.
— Habeeb Akande
Oyster Tom said that they were not talking about people but about men. He agreed that most men remain accountable to themselves only, and that but poorly. He said that the proper chore of a man is to be chargeable for those and that dear to him and that this was something women understood and knew how to do without being told. It was a thing women looked for in their men, and this was why most women lived lives of bottomless sorrow.
— Lance Weller, Wilderness
He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.
— E.M. Forster
Men only treat women like princesses when they want to use them like prostitutes.
— Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.
— James Carlos Blake
Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.
— Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People
...we've told men for so long that we're equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now they're afraid to offer in case we accuse them of sex discrimination. If you were a man would you buy a woman underwear? I wouldn't dare. What if she throws it back in your face and calls you a sexist pig? So they've tried to turn into new men, but that's no good either, because now we're telling them to be masculine. We don't just want them in a pair of Marigolds cleaning the oven, that's not good enough. We want them to take control, to whisk us off hotels, buy us dinner, and make mad passionate love to us all night. We want it all ways. We want them heroes and handy with the vacuum. No wonder the poor guys are confused
— Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships.
— John Fowles
Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Men and the pursuit of them are strongly intertwined with my mental health. I would say, in my defensive defense, that the problem with being a serial monogamist is, there isn't anybody random or unimportant: everybody you sleep with really means something, which is to say each of them is on your public record. At some point I wake up thinking, Fuck this! I don't want another man in my bed ever again. What I really want is a cat.
— Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head
If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.
— Jayne Bauling, Thai Triangle
...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.
— Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
— Helen Rowland
Give a man your attentionLose hisIgnore a manGain his attention
— K.C. Rhoads
In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think.
— Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head
War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
There's mainstream pornography--soft-core airbrushed fluff such as Penthouse and Playboy. The folks makin' this stuff do men and their range of desires a disservice; their implication is that anything outside the "big hair, fake tits, tiny waste, no pores, limited body hair" aesthetic is deviant, weird, not normal--and not something that a red-blooded American man would be interested in. The common boys-will-be-boys explanation for porn--that men get turned on visually (in contrast to "feminine" mode of arousal, which is mental and emotional)--is nothing more than an insult, making men out to be Pavlovian dogs who salivate uncontrollably and strain at their trousers upon contact with nudie pictures.Antiporn arguments, however well-meaning, are no better. Folks like Catherine MacKinnon also believe that men are inherently drawn to porn. And to them, porn is by definition violent, suggesting that it's somehow in men's nature to be aroused by hurting others. Furthermore, antipornography activists think that porn leads men to commit violence--as if men have no self-control or capacity to separate fantasy from reality, as if an erection is a driving force that can't be stopped once it's started... The only difference is one of perspective: Antiporn folk believe that male sexuality is always threatening, while men's-magazine editors think it's always fabulous.
— Lisa Jervis, BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine