Quotes About Men

The most common problem I find among silent sons is their belief that they're just like everybody else. In other words, many either believe that their family was not dysfunctional (when in fact it was) or believe that it was dysfunctional, but they were not affected. This is not unusual for men. The following are some classic behavior patterns in silent sons.

The problem is, most men don't express their emotions.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are. That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

Men, Thom murmured. Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations. He shook his head. It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Stories have power. Gleemen's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.

Men! Min muttered at the door. Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both.

Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.

Men teach cats curiosity, but cats keep sense for themselves.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken. But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

It's one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don't know exactly how.

It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.

MEN WHO THINK THEY ARE OPPRESSED WILL SOMEDAY FIGHT. I WILL REMOVE FROM THEM NOT JUST THEIR WILL TO RESIST, BUT THE VERY SUSPICION THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG.

I never thought swords were much use—even if you have the skill, child, there are always men who have as much, and a deal more strength

Siuan said that "stubborn" was a redundancy when it came to men.

Among Aiel, men do not sing, you know. Isn't that strange? From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.

What are you two blathering about?" she said sharply. "Just things that men talk about," Lan replied. "You wouldn't understand," Rand said.

Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?

Why, Perrin, you must know that I love you." She stood there, watching his mouth work, then spoke slowly and carefully. "Like a brother, you great wooden-headed lummox! The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

Men were so strange they were hardly human sometimes.

Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands.