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There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly. Helen Rowland

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Men are like a fine wine. They start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. ~Author Unknown

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean Jacques Rousseau

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? ~Erma Bombeck

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo. ~Tony Kornheiser

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie. Cole Porter

No man flatters the woman he truly loves. Tuckerman

What is the difference between men and women? A woman wants one man to satisfy her every need, and a man wants every woman to satisfy his one need. ~Author Unknown

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear. Wendy Cope

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous. Proverb

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. John Burroughs

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes. ~Lowell Ganz

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? ~Linda Ellerbee

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. Jerry Rubin

Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. Margaret Thatcher

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. ~Lana Turner

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Friedrich Nietzsche

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world. Louise Bernikow

The first time you buy 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. ~Lupe Velez

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind. Andrea Newman

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him. Sir James M. Barrie

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. Derek Jarman

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. Valerie Solanis

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. Barbara De Angelis

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. ~Lenore Coffee

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere! S. C. Hall

Men like a woman with a daring tongue. That's a double-entendre, which reminds me they also like a ménage à trois. ~Terri Guillemets

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Men are creatures with eight hands. Jane Mansfield

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. ~Marlene Dietrich

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. Dorothy Parker

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. Gertrude Stein

The little man is still a man. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. ~Jerry Seinfeld

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. ~Alice Thomas Ellis

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. ~Ella Harris

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. ~William Shakespeare

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

There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded. Robert B. Fleming

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. Richard Whately

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. Betty Friedan

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ~Helen Rowland

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

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ~Jean Kerr

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment. Myriam Miedzian

A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings. ~Beryl Bainbridge

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries. Cher

A true man hates no one. Napoleon Bonaparte

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ~John Erskine

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks. Valerie Solanis

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell. Robin Morgan

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink. Dame Edith Sitwell

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses providing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man as twice its natural size. ~Virginia Woolf

Someone has to stand up for wimps. Barbara Ehrenreich

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. Camille Paglia

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.Thomas C. Haliburton

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. Myriam Miedzian

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it. ~Winifred Kirkland

Self-discipline implies some unpleasant things to me, including staying away from chocolate and keeping my hands out of women's pants. ~Oleg Kiselev

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Anonymous

How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention! John Greenleaf Whittier

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. ~Arthur Helps

Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles. ~Roseanne Barr

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. Max Lerner

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. James A. Garfield

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. Germaine Greer

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. ~Mignon McLaughlin

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. Lawrence

There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance. ~Unknown

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. Julius Caesar

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels. Mary Mcdowell

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. Mae West

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. ~Ellen Glasgow

All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter. Anonymous

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. ~Author Unknown

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde

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

Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me. ~Amanda Vail

It is a man's world, and you men can have it. Katherine Anne Porter

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. Sholom Aleichem

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. Mae West

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. Carry Nation

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. Florence King

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

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. Doris Day

Prudent men woo thrifty women. German Proverb

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable. Marguerite Duras

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman. Brian Hwang

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

Macho doesn't prove mucho. Zsa Zsa Gabor

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving. ~Author Unknown

The old theory was "Marry an older man, because they're more mature." But the new theory is: "Men don't mature. Marry a younger one." ~Rita Rudner

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Marion Smith

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. ~Helen Rowland

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. Jonathan Swift

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~Henry Louis Mencken

Did you hear about the baby born with organs of both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. ~Author Unknown

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. ~Bruce Willis

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. ~Mignon McLaughlin

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. Helen Rowland

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Men are the dreams of a shadow. Pindar

The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman. ~Martin H. Fischer

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used. Anonymous

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. Camille Paglia

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. Arianna Stassinopoulos

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. Lord Longford

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. ~Steve Martin

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. ~Mignon McLaughlin

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