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We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted.“After that, he said he needed to think.”“About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?”“He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.
— Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'
— Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns
If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I don't want to know. 
— Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart
—  at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
— Chuck Norris
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
— Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means
What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true that for twelve years of her life she used to beat me. Well, I loved you all at once, as much as my dog. If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.
— Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias
Darlin’, the last time I walked into a mall was two presidents ago.” I stared at him in shock. Then I asked, “Is that even possible?” “I got a dick and I was single so, yeah, it’s possible.
— Kristen Ashley, Wild Man
The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.
— Colleen McCullough
Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.
— Charlaine Harris, Dead Reckoning
he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolffrom a man ifhe keeps his chin upand his teeth clean.
— Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth
As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.
— Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
— Charlotte Brontë
Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.
— Emily Maguire, Taming the Beast
I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.
— Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
— C.S. Lewis
And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.
— Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement
—  Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them
I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.
— Khaled Hosseini
He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.
— Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
— Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.
— Helen Keller
May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.
— Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
Throughout the course of the day, Bobby Tom's irritation over his artificially oiled and dirt-smeared chest and his unzipped jeans had flared into righteous indignation. They were treating him like a sex object! It was damned demeaning, that's what it was, being reduced to a set of oil pecs and a tight ass. Shit. A dozen years in the NFL, and this was what it had all come down to. Pecs and ass.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heaven, Texas
Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
— Louise Erdrich, The Round House
Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.
— Regina King
...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly.""And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.
— Karen Marie Moning, Kiss of the Highlander
I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
— Elizabeth I, Her Life in Letters
He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive."Ashworth raised an eyebrow at Bellamy. "Is it just me, or is this conversation becoming uncomfortably personal?"Spencer fumed. "I'm not referring to myself, you ass.
— Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke
There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine
— they can't play at wist
There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.
— Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
Maybe I should let my faithful manservant answer the rest of your questions, since he seems to have all the answers.""I'm saving her time," Bodie replied. "She brings you a redhead, you'll give her grief. Look for women with class, Annabelle. That's most important. The sophisticated types who went to boarding schools and speak French. She has to be the real thing because he can spot a phony a mile away. And he likes them athletic.""Of course he does," she said dryly. "Athletic, domestic, gorgeous, brilliant, socially connected, and pathologically submissive. It'll be a snap.""You forgot hot." Heath smiled. "And defeatist thinking is for losers. If you want to be a success in this world, Annabelle, you need a positive attitude. Whatever the client wants, you get it for him. First rule of a successful business.""Uh-huh. What about career women?""I don't see how that would work.""The kind of potential mate you're describing isn't going to be sitting around waiting for her prince to show up. She's heading a major corporation. In between those Victoria's Secret modeling gigs."He lifted an eyebrow. "Attitude, Annabelle. Attitude.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can
Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.
— Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly."Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.
— Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight
Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.
— John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
— Cameron Dokey, The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights
Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE'S MIS
— Alan Moore
He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
— Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
You have a minute and a half left.""Fine," she snapped. "Then I'll reduce this conversation to one single fact. Today I had six callers. Six! Can you recall the last time I had six callers?"Anthony just stared at her blankly."I can't," Daphne continued, in fine form now. "Because it has never happened. Six men marched up our steps, knocked on our door, and gave Humboldt their cards. Six men brought me flowers, engaged me in conversation, and one even recited poetry."Simon winced."And do you know why?" she demanded, her voice rising dangerously. "Do you?"Anthony, in his somewhat belatedly arrived wisdom, held his tongue."It is all because he"—she jabbed her forefinger toward Simon—"was kind enough to feign interest in me last night at Lady Danbury's ball.
— Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. See, first she shot him. Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. He was every bit as much trouble to her dead as he ever had been alive, and was getting more so all the time. So then, she made another snap decision to cut him up in pieces and dispose of him a hunk at a time. More poor planning. First, she didn't have the proper carving utensils on hand and hacking him up proved to be just a major chore, plus it made just this colossal mess on her off-white shag living room carpet. It's getting to be like the Cat in the Hat now, only Thing Two ain't showing up to help with the clean-up. She finally gets him into portable-size portions, and wouldn't you know it? Cheap trash bags. Can anything else possible go wrong for this poor woman? So, the lesson here is obvious--for want of a small chain saw, a roll of Visqueen and some genuine Hefty bags, she is in Parchman Penitentiary today instead of New Orleans, where she'd planned to go with her new boyfriend. Preparation is everything.
— Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.
— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
Well, there is rough old Albert, as ornery as any big brother a girl could have, putting his arm around Savannah and cooing to her like a repenting hound dog, and promising her she is not common nor shameful. I watched all this and thought you just never know sometimes what's in a man's heart. When you think he is all tough nails and boards he can be different on the inside. It makes me wonder about other men I know, too.
— Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.
— Celia Rivenbark, Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
[Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.
— James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.
— Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
Never having experienced inequality, therefore, the majority of straight white men will be absolutely oblivious to their own advantages – not because they must necessarily be insensitive, sexist, racist, homophobic or unaware of the principles of equality; but because they have been told, over and over again, that there is no inequality left for them – or anyone else – to experience – and everything they have experienced up to that point will only have proved them right.Let the impact of that sink in for a moment.By teaching children and teenagers that equality already exists, we are actively blinding the group that most benefits from inequality – straight white men – to the prospect that it doesn’t. Privilege to them feels indistinguishable from equality, because they’ve been raised to believe that this is how the world behaves for everyone. And because the majority of our popular culture is straight-white-male-dominated, stories that should be windows into empathy for other, less privileged experiences have instead become mirrors, reflecting back at them the one thing they already know: that their lives both are important and free from discrimination.And this hurts men. It hurts them by making them unconsciously perpetrate biases they’ve been actively taught to despise. It hurts them by making them complicit in the distress of others. It hurts them by shoehorning them into a restrictive definition masculinity from which any and all deviation is harshly punished. It hurts them by saying they will always be inferior parents and caregivers, that they must always be active and aggressive even when they long for passivity and quietude, that they must enjoy certain things like sports and beer and cars or else be deemed morally suspect. It hurts them through a process of indoctrination so subtle and pervasive that they never even knew it was happening , and when you’ve been raised to hate inequality, discovering that you’ve actually been its primary beneficiary is horrifying – like learning that the family fortune comes from blood money.Blog post 4/12/2012: Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men
— Foz Meadows
Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments.
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would go away as well. Guys, we just don't want to see your underwear. Truthfully, we believe that there is a direct correlation between how much underwear you show and how much you've got upstairs, if you know what I mean.
— Lisa Samson, Hollywood Nobody
You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop a good man".
— John Paul Warren
The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.
— Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!
— Gail Carriger, Heartless
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
— P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand. Something that makes them feel strong or clever. It's why they love the ocean.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two
—  and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
— Samuel Johnson
...Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.
— Georgette Heyer, Venetia
I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy afterall. …And out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.
— Sylvia Plath
Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.
— Sheryl J. Anderson, Killer Cocktail
Men are always lost, they are confused and afraid, thus they are more trouble than they're worth.
— Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me
You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.
— Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.
— Jayne Ann Krentz, Silver Linings
Women readers aren`t turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be at least a hint,maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.
— Sandra Brown, Envy
As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.
— Tiffany Madison
What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
— Susan Andersen, Burning Up
Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?”“No,” I said.She raised an eyebrow. “It must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldn’t you?”Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. “Aren’t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?”She rolled her eyes. “No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.
— Janette Rallison, My Fair Godmother
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.
— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.
— Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?''A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate
—  but men rile me awfully…
It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.
— Susan Andersen, Burning Up
The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
He was a practical man: give him a sensitive technical instrument, and he could maintain it; something broken, and he could mend it, meditatively, efficiently. But confronted by his grieving wife, he felt useless.
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous.
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
I think we're avoiding the most important question here. What matters most. What means the most to men like us." Conall growled at Billy Dunwich's sincere face. "I am not telling you if she swallows."Dunwich smiled. "Just tell me if she's a good girl...or if she's a very good girl?
— Shelly Laurenston, Go Fetch!
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
— John Buchan, The 39 Steps
When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.
— Drew Barrymore
Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.
— Sylvan Barnet
Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!
— Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
When sinners accuse people,evil just did her job, accusing.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
You are so sweet. This is unbelievable. Some schmo talks to you every two weeks, buys you a meal, during which he talks about himself, dry-humps you, touches your hand once and you think he smells like roses. Maybe he is a white knight on a steed, who will carry you off into the future, so you can live happily ever after and, finally, maybe get it on.
— H. Raven Rose, Caffè Latte
I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!
— William Geist
He doesn't jingle my chimes.
— Peggy Webb, The Mona Lucy
Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.
— Julie Anne Long, What I Did For a Duke
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.
— Kate Griffin, The Midnight Mayor
Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.
— Sabrina Jeffries, Don't Bargain with the Devil
I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.
— Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
— Cathie Linz, Good Girls Do
A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.
— M.G. Hardie
For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.
— David Baddiel, Whatever Love Means
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
— John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner
How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?
— The White Stripes
Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.
— Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
The truth is women need men, we are neither superior nor inferior to men. We are better at some things and worse at other things. Mature people take the hard road and choose to delay quick gratification for true love. Mature people realize that the world does not revolve around them, and their desires, but around commitment. Mature people are committed to something beyond themselves; God, good, the good of society, family etc. If men are the source of your problems, then you are doomed to wait for eternity for them to fix it.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.
— William Clark
Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.
— Keri Arthur, The Darkest Kiss
Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?
— Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
In her experience, there were only two kinds of guys: the ones into sports and the ones into video gaming. It seemed guys had to be obsessed with something, whether it was watching a game or playing in it or keeping some weird collection related to it.
— Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet
I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail
— Rose Pressey, Flip That Haunted House
The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.
— Claudia Carroll, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
You have to humor them you know." Lucile sighed lightly as the door closed. "Men can be boring, but they are necessary. One needs to learn to work around them. Don't you think so?
— Kate Alcott, The Dressmaker
Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.''Thank you,' said Robin.
— Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood
–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men?–––I don’t know. Could be.–The men who haven’t gotten the work they expected to get. The men who don’t get the promotion they expected. The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals. These men can’t be left to mix with the rest of society. Something bad always happens.
— Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.
— Andrew Pyper, The Demonologist
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.
— Lauren Willig, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.
— Michèle Halberstadt, The Pianist in the Dark
I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.
— Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue
How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little hurrying feet! There were endless desperate swarms of them, hurrying through the station and the streets, and an hour from now they would all be still. The waiting mid-town office buildings would swallow them up and contain them, so that to stand in one tower looking out across the canyon to another would be to inspect a great silent insectarium displaying hundreds of tiny pink men in white shirts, forever shifting papers and frowning into telephones, acting out their passionate little dumb show under the supreme indifference of the rolling spring clouds.
— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
...the years have taught me not to wonder too much at the dark things men do. Strange how it is that men never act crueller than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do. And I'm not going to give them the power now. But it was a cruel thing that they did, and when they had finished hurting me, a splinter of loneliness seemed to break off and stay inside me forever.
— Marcel Theroux, Far North
Always wanting another man than your own.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
— Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark & Termite
they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.
— Lynne Reid Banks, The Secret of the Indian
Men are easily threatened. And whenever a man is threatened, when he becomes uncomfortable in places within himself that he does not understand, he naturally retreats into an arena of comfort or competence, or he dominates someone or something in order to feel powerful. Men refuse to feel the paralyzing and humbling horror of uncertainty, a horror that could drive them to trust, a horror that could release in them the power to deeply give themselves in relationship. As a result, most men feel close to no one, especially not to God, and no one feels close to them. Something good in men is stopped and needs to get moving. When good movement stops, bad movement (retreat or domination) reliably develops.
— Larry Crabb
I can still count on one hand the number of men I`ve slept with.
— Mariah Carey
My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher’s heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves.
— Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men,not men circumstances.
— Steve Berry
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.
— Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train
Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.
— Christine Grän, Die Hochstaplerin
Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.
— Margaret Way, Bauhinia Junction
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.
— Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique
Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.
— G.A. Henty, The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Claret is the liquor for boys
—  port for men
Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.
— Shannon Celebi, After Spring Comes
He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.
— Elizabeth Berg, Range Of Motion
Men are by wits not by dicks
— Himmilicious
We pick up our shots and for the first time there's a total absence of sound in the room. From the ceiling, shy silver things blink and wait. Dennis doesn't sit, but hovers at the edge of the table, leaning in with a darkroom perfected slump. His hair hangs like its edges were dipped in lead. Thin spears pointing to the table. I'm looking at his face; we're both serious in a self-aware way, pretending not to notice."It doesn't even feel like I left. God, you look fucking terrible. But it's a terrible face that drinks tequila well. Down. And cheers."We force a dull clash of cups and pour everything down at once. The hard tequila shudders that never happen in the movies. First your head feels light, then it starts receiving the distress signals from throat, lungs, belly. Your shoulders jerk to shake off the snake that wrapped around you and squeezed. It burns. The good burn.
— Laurie Perez, Torpor: Though the Heart Is Warm
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . that tartness was part of the allure all along.
— Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet
Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men
— Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
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?
— Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
— Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers
A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.
— Rosen Trevithick, London, the Doggy and Me
He was too busy checking out and checking in, making and breaking plans, buying and losing cell phones, playing computer games and pool, looking at stock quotes, and living the chaotic life that effectively took up all his energy and time.
— Dalma Heyn, Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.
— Steve Berry, The Venetian Betrayal
A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.
— Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy
What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.
— Steve Berry, The Venetian Betrayal
Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)
— Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
I like the idea of these bad boys having soft nougat centers.
— J.W. Becton, Absolute Liability
The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.
— James  Jones, From Here to Eternity
Leofgifu was skeptical, but then she always was with men. None of them could be trusted; they covered you in kisses and promises, then vanished, leaving nothing but a torn heart, and ofttimes a swelling belly.
— Helen Hollick, The Forever Queen
I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD.
— Santosh Kalwar
Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be ‘passive’ – inviting our gaze.
— Mark Simpson
Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
— John Steinbeck
In the 21st century men’s tits have not just rivalled but replaced women’s as the touchstone of ‘sexy’ in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.
— Mark Simpson
Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny — not to mention vulnerable — minority. Am I dead inside because I didn’t experience the torrent of emotions I’ve been reading about? Am I as emotionally crippled as Ennis because I didn’t blub and hug after sitting through this ‘visceral’ movie, but instead wanted to go and ‘help with the roundup’?
— Mark Simpson
In a spornographic age it’s no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of nakedly narcissistic male metrosexuality. This masculine coquettish-ness, pleasing as it is, no longer offers an intense enough image. Or provokes enough lust. It’s just not very shocking or arousing any more. In fact, it’s just too… normal. To get our attention these days the sporting male body has to promise us nothing less than an immaculately groomed, waxed and pumped gang-bang in the showers.
— Mark Simpson
At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that even ‘regular guys’ are apparently just a fashion fad – this season’s accessory.
— Mark Simpson, Metrosexy
Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, ‘man-bags’ or ‘manscara’. Or about men becoming ‘girlie’ or ‘gay’. It’s about men becoming everything. To themselves. In much the way that women have been for some time. It’s the end of the sexual division of bathroom and bedroom labour. It’s the end of sexuality as we’ve known it.
— Mark Simpson
I can’t bear the smell of cigars, can you?” said Lady Partridge.	“Lionel hates it too,” murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men’s tastes and habits, and their readiness to impose them on their fellows.
— Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.
— Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
In the years after the death of Petrus, Hillegond had refused all offers of marriage, certain that her knowledge of men, despite her uncountable intimate encounters with them, was seriously bescrewed. Further, she grew certain from a recurring nightmare that should she ever consider a man as a second spouse, he would strangle her in her bed with a ligature.
— William  Kennedy, Quinn's Book
The cruelty of men had infected the land, and sea only swept in sharp waves to the shores.
— Gayendra Abeywardane, Crocodile Chamber
The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.
— Irma Joubert, The Girl From the Train
He speaks in a way that leaves no room for argument, on the edge of condescension and caring. It's a trick all men of the South have to learn before they're accepted as one of the good ol' boys.
— Natalie C. Parker, Beware the Wild
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.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.
— David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine
All men have One Master, the Maker.
— Lailah Gifty, Akita
Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves.
— Stacia Pelletier, The Half Wives
Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust.
— Oliver Markus Malloy
Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.
— Cameron Dokey, Kissed:  Once Upon A Time Omnibus Belle/Sunlight and Shadow/Winter's Child
Emma has just rung and sarcastically asked me if I was ever planning on asking her out again. After fighting back my initial reaction to answer ‘only if you’re going to put out this time,’ I told her that, in these days of equality, it was her turn to ask me. Which, amazingly enough, she did.
— Dougie Brimson, Billy's Log. The Hilarious Diary of One Man's Struggle With Life, Lager and the Female Race
When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth — that men are only equal — can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.
— Marilyn French, The Women's Room
The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
— Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto
Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.
— Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders
with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying
— Sebastian Barry, Days Without End
The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical and moral evils that torment mankind, as well as of the vices and follies that degrade and destroy women; yet, at school, boys infallibly lose that decent bashfulness, which might have ripened into modesty at home.
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kills them.
— Ben Marcus, Notable American Women