Men Quotes

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free.

Andrea Dworkin

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Andrea Dworkin

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

Ann Oakley

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Finley Peter Dunne

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

Henri B. Stendhal

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

H. L. Mencken

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Orson Welles

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

James Barrie

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Marilyn Monroe

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Garrison Keillor

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Juvenal

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Norman Mailer

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

George Bernard Shaw