Quotes on Men

Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.