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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
-Proverb
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Prudent men woo thrifty women.
-Proverb
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A beard signifies lice, not brains.
-Proverb
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A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
-Sholom Aleichem
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Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
-Jean Anouilh
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
-Matthew Arnold
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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.
-Margaret Atwood
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Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.
-W. H. Auden
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The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.
-W. H. Auden
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
-Francis Bacon
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Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
-Faith Baldwin
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
-James Barrie
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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
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A true man hates no one.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.
-Pam Brown
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The man, most man,
Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,
He gets his manhood plainest from his soul:
While, obviously, this stringent soul itself
Obeys our old rules of development;
The Spirit ever witnessing in ours,
And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul,
Evolving it sublimely.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
-John Burroughs
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-Nicholas Murray Butler
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
-Julius Caesar
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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
-Cher
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
-G. K. Chesterton
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
-Jean Cocteau
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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
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
-Richard Crashaw
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Books about Men
