136 Quotes About Men

When it comes to understanding the multifaceted nature of men, sometimes a few well-chosen words can offer profound insight. Quotes have the power to encapsulate wisdom, humor, and emotion in a way that resonates deeply with us. Whether you're seeking inspiration, reflection, or a touch of wit, our curated collection of the top 136 quotes about men is designed to offer something for everyone. Dive in and explore the thoughts of renowned authors, philosophers, and personalities who have captured the essence of what it means to be a man. Let these quotes spark conversations, evoke emotions, and perhaps even provide a new perspective.

1. “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.” - Khaled Hosseini

2. “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” - Charles de Gaulle

3. “See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.” - Robin Williams

4. “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.” - Neil Gaiman

5. “Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.” - Inga Muscio

6. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey nonny, nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no more Of dumps so dull and heavy. The fraud of men was ever so Since summer first was leafy. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey, nonny, nonny.” - William Shakespeare

7. “The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.” - Jane Austen

8. “...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.” - Abigail Adams

9. “Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.” - Anais Nin

10. “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” - John Lennon

11. “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” - Gloria Steinem

12. “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.” - Mark Twain

13. “Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.” - James Thurber

14. “He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.” - Margaret Atwood

15. “Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.” - Albert Camus

16. “A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.” - Elizabeth Bowen

17. “Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.” - Tom Robbins

18. “If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I don't want to know. ” - Jill Conner Browne

19. “Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent. ” - Jill Conner Browne

20. “But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. See, first she shot him. Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. He was every bit as much trouble to her dead as he ever had been alive, and was getting more so all the time. So then, she made another snap decision to cut him up in pieces and dispose of him a hunk at a time. More poor planning. First, she didn't have the proper carving utensils on hand and hacking him up proved to be just a major chore, plus it made just this colossal mess on her off-white shag living room carpet. It's getting to be like the Cat in the Hat now, only Thing Two ain't showing up to help with the clean-up. She finally gets him into portable-size portions, and wouldn't you know it? Cheap trash bags. Can anything else possible go wrong for this poor woman? So, the lesson here is obvious--for want of a small chain saw, a roll of Visqueen and some genuine Hefty bags, she is in Parchman Penitentiary today instead of New Orleans, where she'd planned to go with her new boyfriend. Preparation is everything.” - Jill Conner Browne

21. “No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.” - Eoin Colfer

22. “Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?” - Jane Austen

23. “You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would think of that.It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.” - Terry Pratchett

24. “Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. ” - Elizabeth Peters

25. “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

26. “Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.” - Lisa Kleypas

27. “Cats, like men, are flatterers.” - Walter Savage Landor

28. “The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?” - Alexander McCall Smith

29. “The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.” - Marian Keyes

30. “Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.” - Wilkie Collins

31. “He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.” - William Trevor

32. “If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!” - Craig Ferguson

33. “Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any” - John Paul warren

34. “Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.” - Eoin Colfer

35. “As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.” - Jennifer Crusie

36. “The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.” - Christopher Hitchens

37. “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.” - Khaled Hosseini

38. “He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.” - Gustave Flaubert

39. “Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.” - samuel jackson

40. “I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.” - Rachel Cohn

41. “My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher’s heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves.” - Aimee Bender

42. “Whoever won the wars in heavens, He is The God of men today.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

43. “We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted.“After that, he said he needed to think.”“About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?”“He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.” - Lisa Kleypas

44. “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” - Oscar Wilde

45. “In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

46. “I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.” - Dorothy Parker

47. “Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.” - Moderata Fonte

48. “Men are easily threatened. And whenever a man is threatened, when he becomes uncomfortable in places within himself that he does not understand, he naturally retreats into an arena of comfort or competence, or he dominates someone or something in order to feel powerful. Men refuse to feel the paralyzing and humbling horror of uncertainty, a horror that could drive them to trust, a horror that could release in them the power to deeply give themselves in relationship. As a result, most men feel close to no one, especially not to God, and no one feels close to them. Something good in men is stopped and needs to get moving. When good movement stops, bad movement (retreat or domination) reliably develops.” - Larry Crabb

49. “I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.” - Groucho Marx

50. “Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.” - Toba Beta

51. “A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.” - Charles Dickens

52. “Arti i burrave është: të prishin punë ose të vrasin mendjen.” - Christine Grän

53. “May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.” - Roman Payne

54. “Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.” - bell hooks

55. “Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.” - bell hooks

56. “The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.” - bell hooks

57. “I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.” - Tana French

58. “Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.” - Victor Devlin

59. “Look, we say stuff to women all the time. We say we’ll call them, then we don’t. We tell them they’re beautiful, then spend the evening looking at other women. We say we don’t love them when we do, and say we do when we don’t. Christ, if I was a woman, I wouldn’t listen to a goddamn thing any man ever said to me.” - Lani Diane Rich

60. “The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.” - Steve Maraboli

61. “She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together.But not the men?No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi.” - Richelle Mead

62. “Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children!” - Steve Toltz

63. “I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.” - Karen Marie Moning

64. “Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.” - Barbara Streisand

65. “Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.” - Lisa Mantchev

66. “Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.” - Carla Bruni

67. “First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.” - Renate Linnenkoper

68. “In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.” - Criss Jami

69. “When a man plans, a woman laughs.” - David Wong

70. “Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.” - Brandon Sanderson

71. “He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.” - Amy Plum

72. “Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.” - C. JoyBell C.

73. “The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.” - C.S. Lewis

74. “Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.” - Alison Goodman

75. “Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be ‘passive’ – inviting our gaze.” - Mark Simpson

76. “The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.” - John Steinbeck

77. “Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.” - John Steinbeck

78. “Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.” - Charlaine Harris

79. “I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?” - Joel Salatin

80. “I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.” - Thomas Hardy

81. “My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: "Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.” - Christine de Pizan

82. “Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.” - Christine de Pizan

83. “[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.” - Moderata Fonte

84. “And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men,not men circumstances.” - Steve Berry

85. “[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.” - Antonia Fraser

86. “You really love me?" she asked wistfully."The devil!" he exclaimed, looking over his shoulder. "Did I forget to say it? The thing I came to say?” - Mary Balogh

87. “God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery. ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women.” - Augustine of Hippo

88. “[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly.” - Augustine of Hippo

89. “[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.” - Aristophanes

90. “So you see, the most vital question then becomes, what type of woman will conquer our hero? If she be of poor quality, he’ll become a slave. But if she be great, then her greatness will elevate the man to greater heights than he could ever have attained on his own.” - Bryan M. Litfin

91. “He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.” - Ouida

92. “I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.” - Ouida

93. “Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel,. he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside.” - Siri Hustvedt

94. “A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” - Ogden Nash

95. “...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!” - Gail Carriger

96. “It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.” - Susan Andersen

97. “Leofgifu was skeptical, but then she always was with men. None of them could be trusted; they covered you in kisses and promises, then vanished, leaving nothing but a torn heart, and ofttimes a swelling belly.” - Helen Hollick

98. “Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men” - Dennis Lehane

99. “The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.” - Rudolfo Anaya

100. “I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.” - Mary Wollstonecraft

101. “I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.” - Elisabeth Elliot

102. “Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.” - Henry James

103. “Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships.” - John Fowles The Magus

104. “It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.” - Anne Brontë

105. “Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.” - Harry S. Truman

106. “After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.” - Orhan Pamuk

107. “Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?” - Diane Messidoro

108. “لا يمكن أن يخلق الله رجال من أرحام النساء , ثم لا يجعل لهن كرامة فوق كرامة الرجال” - محمد دهشان

109. “Men lie the most,women tell the biggest lies.” - Chris Rock

110. “Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice nor exciting and she wondered why she was with them at all. She found a way of making the exciting men nicer and that was by leaving them. But then, they weren't exciting anymore either.” - Francois Lelord

111. “Wie so oft erhebt sich die Frage, weshalb Männer in ihrer Persönlichkeit oft diffus sind, wie es sein kann, daß sie an einem Obduktionstisch, in einer Küche, hinter einem Hundeschlitten virtuose Equilibristen sein können, während sie, wenn sie einem Fremden die Hand geben müssen, in infantiler Unbeholfenheit versinken.” - Peter Høeg

112. “As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.” - Wally Lamb

113. “The first time you view 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.” - Claudia Carroll

114. “Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get on. And that bit about them coming in threes, well, that's just a myth.” - Eleanor Prescott

115. “We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.” - Sheila Heti

116. “For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!” - Meredith Duran

117. “The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.” - Criss Jami

118. “Real MEN don't need a woman covering for him because a Real MAN IS a woman's covering!” - Sanjo Jendayi

119. “My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.” - Tessa Kiros

120. “Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it.” - Michelle M. Pillow

121. “WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:In your case, ED is not a man's name.” - Robin Glasser

122. “Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.” - Paul Hoffman

123. “I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process that happens when a boy falls in love and becomes a man. Men's hearts are so often broken. Still, you have to leave your broken heart in a place where- when the woman who knows how to see what a gift is, sees it- your broken heart can be picked up again. I think that it takes a very strong woman (inner strength) to be able to handle a man falling in love with her, without morphing into a monster (the process is a very potent process, it can poison a woman, really). A woman thinks she wants a man to fall in love with her for all the perks that come with it; but when a real love really does happen, when a real man shows his manhood; it's often too powerful a thing to endure without being poisoned. Hence, all the heartbroken men. But, I do believe that there are strong women in the world today. A few. But there are. You could say, that the mark of a real woman, is a woman who can handle a man- a man falling in love with her. A woman who can recognize that, and keep it with her.” - C. JoyBell C.

124. “When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.” - Albert Einstein

125. “I think I know why you never married, Sarah.""Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.” - Mercedes Lackey

126. “They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid.” - Jeanette Winterson

127. “I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart -- callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. -- From the short story What Rough Beast” - Michael Hibbard

128. “A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.” - Habeeb Akande

129. “Questa luce, cioè la storia, è spietata; essa ha questo di strano e di divino, e cioè che quantunque sia luce, e precisamente perché è luce, mette spesso dell'ombra là dove si vedono raggi; dello stesso uomo fa due fantasmi differenti, e l'uno attacca l'altro, e ne fa giustizia, e le tenebre del despota lottano con lo splendore del capitano. Da qui, una misura più vera nell'apprezzamento definitivo dei popoli. Babilonia violata diminuisce Alessandro; Roma incatenata diminuisce Cesare; Gerusalemme uccisa diminuisce Tito. La tirannia segue il tiranno. E' una sventura per un uomo lasciare dietro di sé dell'ombra che ha la forma sua.” - Victor Hugo

130. “If boys don't learn, men won't know.” - Douglas Wilson

131. “He's a man," Themla said."I guess that explains it.""Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike.” - Dean Koontz

132. “Perempuan memang tidak bisa diajak berpikir jernih jika menyangkut perihal lelaki. Dalam situasi seperti ini, kepala mereka dipenuhi kabur merah muda bernama dopamine yang meracuni sel-sel kelabu mereka dengan berbagai ide romantis yang absurd.” - Windry Ramadhina

133. “Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.” - Criss Jami

134. “Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.” - Julia Quinn

135. “Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams.” - Habeeb Akande

136. “If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.” - Shannon L. Alder