Quotes about men
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
#25
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”
"Lady Lazarus"
Ariel (1965)
Variant: p>Herr God, Herr Lucifer,
Beware.
Beware.Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.</p
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
“Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”
“All actual heroes are essential men,
And all men possible heroes.”
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
As quoted by Thomas A. Bruno in Take your dreams and Run (South Plainfield: Bridge, 1984), p. 2-3. Source: Dr. Preston Williams (2002): By the Way - A Snapshot Diagnosis of the Inner-City Dilemma, p. 38-39. Xulun Press, Fairfax, Virginia http://books.google.de/books?id=Xn9jxqatFecC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=woodrow+wilson+We+Grow+Great+By+Dreams%27&source=bl&ots=TtioQ-yO0-&sig=qHWPj4-8g3hSjcV-qJTbzNg6nuI&hl=de&sa=X&ei=1QZ0U4DBOaf80QWSqYDQAw&ved=0CHYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=woodrow%20wilson%20We%20Grow%20Great%20By%20Dreams'&f=false
1880s
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Letter to Paul Cézanne (16 April 1860), as published in Paul Cézanne : Letters (1995) edited by John Rewald.
Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Jace and Simon, pg. 171
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Lincoln never said these words, but wrote and said some that are very similar to the above quote. As Lincoln's popularity within the Republican Party grew, he was invited to address members of his party throughout the nation. In September 1859 Lincoln gave several speeches to Ohio Republicans. The notes Lincoln used for his 1859 engagements state: "We must not disturb slavery in the states where it exists, because the Constitution, and the peace of the country both forbid us — We must not withhold an efficient fugitive slave law, because the constitution demands it — But we must, by a national policy, prevent the spread of slavery into new territories, or free states, because the constitution does not forbid us, and the general welfare does demand such prevention — We must prevent the revival of the African slave trade, because the constitution does not forbid us, and the general welfare does require the prevention — We must prevent these things being done, by either congresses or courts — The people — the people — are the rightful masters of both Congresses, and courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it —" Source: Abraham Lincoln [September 16-17, 1859<nowiki> http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d0189300))#I379</nowiki>] (Notes for Speech in Kansas and Ohio) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/018/0189300/malpage.db&recNum=1 in "Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916." Transcribed and Annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois. Lincoln transformed his prior quoted notes in the following words: "I say that we must not interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists, because the Constitution forbids it, and the general welfare does not require us to do so. We must not withhold an efficient Fugitive Slave law, because the Constitution requires us, as I understand it, not to withhold such a law. But we must prevent the outspreading of the institution, because neither the Constitution nor general welfare requires us to extend it. We must prevent the revival of the African slave trade, and the enacting by Congress of a Territorial slave code. We must prevent each of these things being done by either Congresses or courts. The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Source: Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/3253/3253-h/files/2657/2657-h/2657-h.htm#2H_4_0043; in "The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Five, Constitutional Edition", edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley and released as " The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Five, by Abraham Lincoln http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/3253/3253-h/files/2657/2657-h/2657-h.htm" (2009) by Project Gutenberg.
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Abraham Lincoln / Disputed
1850s
Source: The Impact of Science on Society
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Gott ist tot! aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht noch Jahrtausende lang Höhlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt.
Und wir — Wir müssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen.
Sec. 108
Quotes about quotes: see also God is dead.
The Gay Science (1882)
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: Goddess of Light
Source: Pierre or the Ambiguities
Letter to Elisabeth Nietzsche, Bonn, 1865-06-11. Quoted in Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (opening epigram).
Variant: Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Source: Twilight of the Idols
Source: East of Eden (1952)
“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”
Source: A House of Pomegranates
Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
Source: The Pillars of the Earth
Source: The Light Fantastic
Sylva Sylvarum Century X (1627)
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
Context: It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Source: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
“Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.”
Source: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 58
“Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
Sect. 38
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Source: A History of Western Philosophy
“Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain”, p. 133.
This is a paraphrase of Thoreau: see explanation by the Walden Woods project http://www.walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page).
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Arizona and New Mexico: On Top," & "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain"
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XII: Of Alexander Crummell
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variant: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Source: Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 26
Pt. IV, st. 23 -- Wilde's epitaph
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.”
Source: Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Canto III, stanza 2.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Context: In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”
Source: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Optimism
Poetry quotes, Poems of Pleasure (1900)
Context: I find a rapture linked with each despair,
Well worth the price of anguish. I detect
More good than evil in humanity.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better as the world grows old.
Source: Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis