quotations about men
Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPER
Hope
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
SIGMUND FREUD
Civilization and Its Discontents
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.
ROSEANNE BARR
attributed, Soaring Solo
It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Redux
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
At Last
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Atlantic, 1965
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
attributed, Family Circle Magazine, August 9, 2005