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We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.
— Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders
Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”-Caroline to Ursual.
— Agatha Christie
A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.
— Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter.
— Marilyn French, The Women's Room
That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A woman's confidence separates the men from the boys.
— Sanjo Jendayi
All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
— Marilyn French, The Women's Room
Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.
— Marilyn Monroe, My Story
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can
— Gaius Julius Caesar
Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.
— David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel
He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
— Eoin Colfer, Airman
No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.
— Jack Donovan, Androphilia
If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.
— Jack Donovan, Androphilia
The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.
— Jack Donovan, Androphilia
There are no gods, only men.
— David Vann, Bright Air Black
I am tired of men hurting women and each other and themselves.
— Carlos Andrés Gómez, Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.
— Ouida
And only men could have invented the idea of a king.
— David Vann, Bright Air Black
I am tired of men dying because they feel alone, feeling like they are destined for prison or monotony or gender role-playing or anything less than their most divine of dreams.
— Carlos Andrés Gómez, Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood
It is the prerogative of women to make men wait.
— C.S. Woolley, All Hallows' Eve in Stickleback Hollow
Do I seriously have to go on this date? I mean seriously what if he's like the last one?"Jana complained to her best friend of Fifteen Years, as Destiny replied,"Girl, I have already settled down and had a child, you need to give this guy a chance heck who knows Gunther could be the one ever thought of that?"Jana rolled her eyes then looked herself in the mirror she has brunette short hair,grey eyes,five feet ten inches, one hundred eighty pounds and loves to be outgoing with her friends.
— Annora Rose, Annabel's Fate
After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.
— Michelle Tea, Black Wave
Great men dare the giant of impossibilities
— Topsy Gift
Call it arrogance or male chauvinism, the male ego just doesn’t allow a woman to participate in key issues in family. Men seldom realize that it’s the housewife who has the most difficult job in the world: waking up early, preparing breakfast, getting the children ready for school, preparing lunch, cleaning up the mess at home and so much more. Even before they can some rest, the doorbell would ring and the children are back from school. Then, the routine again, and by the end of the day, they were tired. Women in the family are the last to sleep and the first to wake up. Sometimes, even during a crisis in the family or when there is a dispute, it’s the lady of the house that stands rock solid to calm things down and face challenges head on.
— Jagdish Joghee, The Colour of Love: Trumpets and bugles, there was music all over...
A man in love is a sorry spectacle.
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony; and he said: 'These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
— Ruth Gordo
God save us all from good-looking men.
— James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes
The structural similarity of men, and their ability to be represented both as ideal, like Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, and as average. Man being the measure of all things, and therefore a sort of standard and interchangeable unit of length, breadth, intelligence, emotion. We could lay them end to end to measure the distance between the continents, the distance to the moon. We could use them to calculate the weight of weather, or to buy things at the grocery. With such an abundance of men, we could gauge anything we chose.
— Alexandra Kleeman, Intimations: Stories
Loving God is a play scenario written in the spirit of men
— Sunday Adelaja
Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ..from the reader's choice about MK Gandhi and his works for the regeneration of human kind.
— Unknown
Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ...crushed humans, Readers choice of relevant quotes about MK Gandhi and Satyagraha.
— Kathy Richardson
Whatever the dangers in sex, gay men's innate drive to make love to other men corrects, redeems, and intervenes on a world gone mad with man-to-man violence.
— Douglas Sadownick, Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present
Men. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it’s not what you think. When we meet, we make … magic.
— Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels
Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.
— Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a bother that it must be masculine.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
If you’re the dad of a daughter, your job is particularly important, affecting her self-esteem, her autonomy, and her aspirations (according to one study, out of the University of British Columbia, daughters who see their dads doing chores are less likely to limit theircareer aspirations to stereotypically female industries, like teaching or nursing). But you can’t just talk the talk, you have to actually walk it. We promise, it’ll pay off for you, too! Working dads who spend more time with their kids are happier in their jobs. They’re also more patient, empathetic, and flexible—and at least one study claims it might just help them live longer.
— Jessica Bennett, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
If you can kill it in the bedroom, chances are you can kill it in the kitchen, too—and studies have shown that men who help out more with the chores have more sex with their wives (really!). We know, gender roles run deep, which is why women in hetero relationships still end up doing the vast majority of the domestic work despite being the breadwinners in two-thirds of American homes, leaving them burned out, resentful, and, nope, not really in the mood. But it doesn’t have to be this way—and, in fact, we might want to borrow a page from our LGBTQ sisters and brothers (or those who identify as neither): research shows they split chores, decisions, and finances more evenly
— Jessica Bennett, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you´ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.
— Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death.
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?
— Margaret Atwood
The vicar's organized a snow-shoveling party.""But why?" I asked.It didn't make sense. If all the roads were closed, what use was it clearing a way to the front door?"Because," said Aunt Felicity's voice behind me, "it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits.
— Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
156/ I'd be very good at being rich, but no one has offered to test my talents in that department. ... New York was like a wealthy, handsome, intensely artistic, complex, slightly manic man who, for some inexplicable reason, was enthralled with me. Not that I ever met a man like that. Who needed men anyway? I'll take Manhattan.
— Kim Addonizio, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life
A man couldn't do what he did. He's a monster."I laughed. "Ain't no monster. Monsters ain't real 'cept in kids' imaginations, under the beds, in the closets. We live in a world a' men and there ain't no good come out of tellin' them they monsters. Makes 'em think they ain't done nothin' wrong, that it's their nature and they can't do nothin' to change that. Callin' em a monster makes 'em something different from the rest of us, but they ain't. They just men, flesh and bone and blood.
— Beth  Lewis, The Wolf Road
Don't ever believe that Narcissists don't understand they have hurt you. They know exactly what they did and why they did it. The reason they can't stop their abuse is because the narcissistic supply is their addiction. Unlike, drug addicts that need their fix to feel normal, narcissists need to feel significant. This is their addiction. Even if it takes destructive ways to have this emotional balance they will pursue it. Your feelings don't count only the supply does. The greater the supply the greater the drama in your life as they pursue it. So, get over believing they don't understand. They do understand. You just found out and got in the way of their easy access to greater supply than you.
— Shannon L. Alder
He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs for one another.
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers and not words. No explanations seemed necessary. They were not friends, Comrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Mathew, and they didn’t trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly adult. They looked out at the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the machine.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
And I knew that. Male panthers, all of them, were a very Neanderthalish lot. They liked their mates at home when they were, around, underfoot, close enough to touch at all times. Semels were twice as possessive, twice as protective, and three times as caveman-inclined.
— Mary Calmes, Honored Vow
But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
You wouldn't believe it, but apart from a few drunks, a few sex murderers and other men who get into the papers where they are designated as criminals of passion, no normal man with normal drives has the obvious idea that a normal woman would like to be quite normally raped. Part of it is that men aren't normal, but people are incapable of even imagining all the ramifications of the male disease, so accustomed have they become to men's mistakes in judgment and their phenomenal lack of instinct.
— Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina
Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He felt Miss Kristina's presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing together in his blood. Inside him, a lack of willpower and a colossal tension battled it out. He felt both weak and furious at the same time. He went around with his fists clenched, ready to fight, yet what he wanted most of all was to hold and be held.
— Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
The favour of God, forfeits the failure of men.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos!This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three days ago, fleeing in humiliating shame, those three days a constant running battle. For three days the accursed Imperial ship Indomitable had followed, firing on them at every opportunity. Death or imprisonment now awaited those who called themselves Corsairs – and though this death was now more certain rather than just a possibility, Sona Kilroy, or “The Hammer” as he was called by his men, was not prepared to give up his freedom so easily. Piracy was his life and he’d known no other. He was tough and cruel, a despicable man, a case in point when academics quoted the barbarism by which the Corsairs had made themselves known and feared across the star systems of the peaceful Terran Empire.
— Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning
The favour of God forfeits the failure of men.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me.
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
— James Madison, Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51
Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair and ruddy skin that burns at the beach. A bundle of appetites. A full, boisterous guffaw; a man who tells knock know jokes. Hot dogs - not even East 86th Street bratwurst but mealy, greasy big guts that terrifying pink. Baseball. Gimme caps. Puns and blockbuster movies, raw tap water and six-packs. A fearless, trusting consumer who only reads labels to make sure there are plenty of additives. A fan of the open road with a passion for his pickup who thinks bicycles are for nerds. Fucks hard and talks dirty; a private though unapologetic taste for porn. Mysteries, thrillers, and science fiction; a subscription to National Geographic. Barbecues on the Fourth of July and intentions, in the fullness of time, to take up golf. Delights in crappy snack foods of ever description: Burgles. Curlies. Cheesies. Squigglies - you're laughing - but I don't eat them - anything that looks less like food than packing material and at least six degrees of separation from the farm. Bruce Springsteen, the early albums, cranked up high with the truck window down and your hair flying. Sings along, off-key - how is it possible that I should be endeared by such a tin ear?Beach Boys. Elvis - never lose your roots, did you, loved plain old rock and roll. Bombast. Though not impossibly stodgy; I remember, you took a shine to Pearl Jam, which was exactly when Kevin went off them...(sorry). It just had to be noisy; you hadn't any time for my Elgar, my Leo Kottke, though you made an exception for Aaron Copeland. You wiped your eyes brusquely at Tanglewood, as if to clear gnats, hoping I didn't notice that "Quiet City" made you cry. And ordinary, obvious pleasure: the Bronx Zoo and the botanical gardens, the Coney Island roller coaster, the Staten Island ferry, the Empire State Building. You were the only New Yorker I'd ever met who'd actually taken the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. You dragged me along once, and we were the only tourists on the boat who spoke English. Representational art - Edward Hopper. And my lord, Franklin, a Republican. A belief in a strong defense but otherwise small government and low taxes. Physically, too, you were such a surprise - yourself a strong defense. There were times you were worried that I thought you too heavy, I made so much of your size, though you weighed in a t a pretty standard 165, 170, always battling those five pounds' worth of cheddar widgets that would settle over your belt. But to me you were enormous. So sturdy and solid, so wide, so thick, none of that delicate wristy business of my imaginings. Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. How luck we are, when we've spared what we think we want! How weary I might have grown of all those silly pots and fussy diets, and how I detest the whine of sitar music!
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.
— Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
Real men don’t need porn.
— Drew Nellins Smith, Arcade
The hunger of hell is brought about by the deeds of men.
— Hanimoz Obey
Men have healed me. Men have wounded me. One man healed me by wounding me.
— Kate McGahan
he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with ‘being a man.’ ‘being a man’ had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Well,” Lynx said once the man was dead. “That was…uneventful.”“You’re as fickle as an old woman,” Zeus told Lynx. “One minute too much carnage, the next not enough.
— Shay Rucker, On the Edge of Love
All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!
— Jenny Colgan, The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
Entering the front door, you were at once assailed by a nightmare of cheerlessness and squalor, all the sordid melancholy, at its worst, of any nest of bedrooms where only men sleep;
— Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement
The harder they fall, the harder they become.
— Nancy Glynn
To own a man's heart is to own him for life.
— Nancy Glynn
Never let a man stay the night. Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.
— David Joy, The Weight of This World
He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
— Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten
If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreedIt's stupid to be a man
— Leonard Cohen
I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.
— Thomas Hardy
Look here,” said Will. “When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to keep his friendship I tell him his idea isfine and go ahead. But I like you and you’re a friend of my family, so I’m going to stick my neck out.
— John Steinbeck
A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably
— Kamala Suraiyya Das, Wages of Love
Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.
— Emma Watson
What she thinks and feels is this: This is a world of men. They come into your country, they invade your home, they kill your family. They turn your body into the battlefield — the territory of all violence — all power — all life and death. And we take it. We do. We keep taking it. We have lost track of the reasons we do not slaughter the world of men, but we do not. Yes, there are good men. She sees the face of her father. She sees how the filmmaker loves the writer. She sees the yet-unwritten life of the writer’s son. She sees her. . brother. Beautiful smear. But it is the world of men that creates pure destruction. And this is a truth we cannot bear: Since we bear them into the world, we cannot kill them. Cannot be done with them. Cannot exile them into oblivion.
— Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Though Emerson is a firm believer in the equality of the female sex, he has some secret reservations, and one of them involves the car. (There is something about these machines that makes men want to pound their chests and roar like gorillas. I speak figuratively, of course.)
— Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky
What I didn't like was how people talked to menow that I was no longer single; they were nicer.Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation,like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.
— Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things
All respect is earned, even self-respect.
— Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man
The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting
— Charlotte Shane, Prostitute Laundry
Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because formulas do not work out; hungry for security and yet sensing its disappearance from the earth. In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it is; that business men are intelligent in spite of the records of their stupidity; that they are kind and charitable in spite of the principles of sound business; that their lives are rich instead of the thin tiresome routines they know; and that a time is coming when they will not be afraid any more.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Your reputation is what others think of you
—  your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated
You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.
— Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man
It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
— Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories
What a dire time to be attracted to men.
— Kathie Lee Gifford, I Can't Believe I Said That
Only an honorable victory is a true victory.
— Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man
Respect is both earned and lost.
— Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man
The superior man responds
—  the inferior man reacts.
Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him.
— Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool
Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.
— Stuart Miller, Men and Friendship
After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.
— Stuart Miller, Men and Friendship
If your thoughts are not right, your actions won't be right.
— Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man
When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.
— Linda Hogan, People of the Whale
Love is for real men.
— Charles Bukowski
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
How boys transitioned from bothersome pests to men who made her pulse skip a beat and her head swim in a flood of pleasurable sensations was beyond her. Perhaps this was the true definition of magic.
— Jesikah Sundin, Transitions: Novella Collection
The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Of course, thousands of years of traditional masculinity weren't going away without a fight. They lingered in the vestigial memories of men, occasionally challenging a decision to read the directions or wear argyle, hoping for a day when a hurtling piece of space rock will send the world back to a time before the advent of styling gels.
— Matt K. Turner, GENESIS
He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult
—  and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.
Also, that men fall into two classes--those who forget views and those who remember them, even in small rooms.
— E.M. Forester
One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.
— Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
We, as women, have this slight flaw. Yes, admitting it, we are flawed with a faultless memory in regards to the good and bad in men...Stored within our memory banks is every loving gesture and sugar coated word, thoughtful moments, places, arguments, indiscretions, lies all catalogued, timed and dated...The list, for us, is endless...It is not our fault...You give us so much to remember...
— Virginia Alison
I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs.
— N.M. Silber
Men could be utter pussycats when they had even a touch of the sniffles.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.
— Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.
— Shannon L. Alder
In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.
— Michael R. French, Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand
Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope.
— Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.
— Robin Hobb, Golden Fool
They say that a man is as faithful as his options, and in this moment I know it to be true. So I switched the phone off. It's too much. Even Jesus only had three temptations.
— Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Most men will not swim before they are able to.
— Hermann Hesse
And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?
— Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
Men were weird. Especially men made of tempered steel and fire and perpetual darkness. Or men with penises. Either way
— Darynda Jones, The Dirt on Ninth Grave
The reason a lot of women can't move on from a relationship or people they love is because they need to know why. Why did this happen? Why did you do this? Why don't you care? Why did you hurt me? Why do you believe this about me? Why did you send me mixed signals? Why are these other people in your life acting like you care? Men have it all wrong. Insecurity is not why a lot of women don't let go. Women have a difficult time letting go because men don't communicate why at the level that women require. They don't back up their words with actions that are not confusing or could be misinterrupted as something else. Until, men learn that their actions and their friends and families reactions can create a questionable doubt about how they feel, they will forever have to deal with the drama they create for themselves.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.
— Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
So beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hatrack no wonder they hide it with a cabbageleaf
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Monique whirled around and ran to her husband. “Pray with me, pray with me. We are going to die this night, Alexander.” Raven shut the door and leaned against it. “Don’t panic on me, Monique. We have a chance if we can stall him.” Alexander glared at her, his arm protectively around his wife, his hand already swollen and sore looking. “Don’t listen to her, Monique. She almost strangled me and threw me against the wall with unbelievable strength. She is unclean.” Raven rolled her eyes in exasperation. “I’m beginning to wish I did have all that power you think I have. I’d find a way to keep you from talking.” “He is afraid for us.” Monique spoke in a conciliatory tone. “Can’t we take off his chains?” “He would try to attack Andre the moment he returned.” Raven made a face at Alexander, completely exasperated with him. “That would get him killed fas
— Christine Feehan, Dark Prince
Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Gregori was the one who came up with the idea about human psychic women, and I’m certain he’s right. You and your mother support his theory. He also thinks there’s something in the Carpathian woman’s chemistry that makes it nearly impossible for the female chromosome to beat out the male.” “Wouldn’t you know he’d think it was the woman,” Shea sniffed contemptuously. “More than likely the men determine the sex, just like in humans, and they just can’t produce girls.” She grinned at Raven. “The men bring about their own destruction.” Raven laughed. “Mikhail would never let me speak to you again if he could hear us. He thinks I’m too independent and disrespectful already.” She shrugged carelessly. “It’s probably true, but it’s a lot of fun. I love the way he gets that pained look on his face. He’s so cute.” “Cute? I’ll bet he likes that description.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Desire
...this was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed.
— Chris Bohjalian, The Guest Room
Men have more to lose than their chains .
— Heidi Hartmann
Men lie only in two scenarios. One when they have to hide their new girlfriend from the existing one(s) and second when they have to hide their income from the tax authorities.
— Nitin   Sharma, From Tiggie, With Love
It shall be an offence for any man, either a husband or other person of the male sex, married or otherwise, being over the age of twelve years, to throw any item of clothing having been worn by the said person for whatever length of time, upon the floor of any bathroom or any room adjacent to and connected to a bathroom, without good cause.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
— Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.
— Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
All men are brothers in the night.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—quicklike, and don’t bring me no whiteboy sass.” Hunter’s Hunter and Godlen Gray
— Toni Morrison, Jazz
I always thought of men as being hard—maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn’t. I don’t know where he’d learned it, but it wasn’t something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn’t. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn’t know which one of us had it worse
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The man, like the mouse, undermines what he cannot understand. Because he bumps into a thing, he calls it the nearest obstacle; though the obstacle may happen to be the pillar that holds the roof over his head. he industriously removes the obstacle; and in return the obstacle removes him; and much more valuable things than he.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce
Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
I don't think you can judge every man by one or two who let you down
— Mia Sheridan, Kyland
You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
— Shannon L. Alder
When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.
— Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
Men take my picture and sometimes give me money. They ask me to take off my clothes and then they take my picture. They call it art. They call it nude.
— Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side: A Memoir
It's okay", you say, perhaps more to yourself than to him. Like if you keep telling yourself that it's okay, then it will be.
— Maria Venegas, Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter
Men are good when they get lost in the beauty of love.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
The uneasy expression returned and his mouth twisted scornfully. She waited, certain he was going to say something. Lou'd heard it too many times before: a woman doing a man's work. She'd already decided how she was going to cut him down if he did. Instead, he said nothing.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.
— Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter
One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.
— Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller's Story
You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
There is no code among men because there are no men anymore. Only monsters who sit behind their desks and give orders.
— Karina Halle, Dirty Angels
There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.
— Winston Graham, Demelza
Indeed the mind of Ilúvatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all things that are to come. But this we hold to be true, that your home is not here, neither in the land of Aman nor anywhere within the Circles of the World. And the Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of Ilúvatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they grew afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.
— Louis L'Amour, Ride the Dark Trail
Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.
— Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
When men cry, real men, we cry Man Tears. Those are tears made up of actual meat. We basically cry pork chops and steaks. Imagine a steak tearing its way out of your eye. It hurts like hell, which causes more tears. It's a vicious cycle
— Larry Gent, To Money and a TV
Men are frightful nuisances at times
—  how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.
You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.
— Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger
You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. You think real men don't get scared? We do, all the time, especially when the people we love can be taken away from us. The key to manhood is being there, every morning when she wakes up, every night before she goes to bed. That's what a man does. It has nothing to do with how good you are with some shiny knives. And if you let her do this thing alone, then by God—
— Ann Aguirre, Restoration
Seriously, men.” Gina scowls when she turns back to us. “We’re royalty when they want to fuck. Thrilled to have as much sex as their anatomy allows, and then we’re nothing.Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
— Katy Evans, Manwhore +1
Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.
— Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
— Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.
— Suzette R. Hinton
What was it with women and pushing men’s buttons?I get that a woman wants to look attractive. News flash: you already do. We see it. But apparently to women, owning their own beauty isn’t enough. They arm all the weapons in their arsenal to gain the attention of every Y chromosome within a ten-mile radius. Why do they go to all the trouble? Validation.Meanwhile, biology dictates survival of the fittest; battles ensue, wars are fought, and somewhere amid all the carnage, a victor emerges to claim his female. All because said female just wanted to go out and feel pretty that night.
— Kat Bastion, No Weddings
Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
— John dos Passos
By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.
— Angela Carter, Love
Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.
— Sunday Adelaja
A wise man once said NOTHING... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!
— Tanya Masse
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work
— Sunday Adelaja
Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture.
— Jean Kilbourne, Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.
— Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.
— Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore
When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth; and this causes them to regard you as inferior.
— K.M.Docherty, ManHandling
No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.
— K.M.Docherty
She wants to drive me crazy so that I’ll want her even more. She’s teasing me. That’s what women do. You ever heard of a man doing this? Course not.
— Jack Dancer, Detour Paris
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
— Sunday Adelaja
Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive
— Sunday Adelaja
I would have seen flaws in this, later in my life. I would have felt the impatience, even suspicion, a woman can feel towards a man who lacks a motive. Who has only friendship to offer and offers that so easily and bountifully that even if it is rejected he can move along as buoyantly as ever. Here was no solitary fellow hoping to hook up with a girl. Even I could see that, inexperienced as I was. Just a person who took comfort in the moment and in a sort of reasonable façade of life.
— Alice Munro, Queenie
Baseball isn't just a game. It's life being played out on a field—a field of dreams—on diamonds of green, where players pursuing their dreams try to be the best they can be on the grandest stage of all—where men become boys and boys become men, all speaking one universal language without uttering a single word.
— Tom Tatum
All men have life, but only few men know its value.
— Sunday Adelaja
Can you start a movement in your land that will encourage men and women to begin to think, to begin to make sound judgment and informed decisions? Will you bring illumination to your people? Will you facilitate understanding amidst those whom you live with? The earth is crying for people who make sound judgment and informed decisions
— Sunday Adelaja
Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land
— Sunday Adelaja
God is short of responsible men which explains why he said “who shall I send and who would go for us?
— Sunday Adelaja
God is looking for sincere men he could send to politics to manage politics for him.
— Sunday Adelaja
Those who are men in God’s eyes would live and die for the promotion of equity, fairness and impartiality
— Sunday Adelaja
Sure, I watched the workmen come and lower large pieces of rotten sheetrock and lift new clean panels on a pulleyfrom that same window months ago, and I could have written then, but I must have sensed her coming, the smoker, so I waited.
— Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
I call it the “Fuck up, own up, and get up” policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn’t make them worse.
— Penelope Douglas, Until You
A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.
— Shannon L. Alder
...when women survive an awful marriage or love affair, and all that shit, they generally avoid another relationship for quite some time. With men, however, it is just the opposite; the moment they finish a catastrophe they start looking for another one. Men are incapable of being alone.
— Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
Ladies, don't lower yourself to fight over a man or compete with other women for one. It's not classy, immature, and a waste of time. Instead, use that energy and time wisely by achieving goals and being a better you. This way, you attract someone better than a man that doesn't see the jewel that you are. Have standards always.
— April Mae Monterrosa
There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Us women, no matter how crude we are with one another,we must always remember that we have two enemies in common.” The three of us look at each other confused, then back at Ms. Eleanor waiting for her to answer.“Men,” she sighs, still staring off. “And old age.
— Chelsea Ballinger, Sinners & Saints
Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good..
— Oscar Wilde
I say it must have been great to grow up when men were men. He says men have always been what the are now, namely incapable of coping with life without the intervention of God the Almighty. Then in the oven behind him my pizza starts smoking and he says case in point.
— George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.
— Andrea Cremer, The Inventor's Secret
I never set out to bash men, it is not about revenge, I always say at the end of a relationship that i hope that i have created a better man for the next woman by what i allowed and reinforcedCrystal EvansThe Bunna Man
— Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy
—  you can only go to the borders