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Quotes About Men

If the original essence of the thing which we fear could confidently lodge itself within us by its own authority it would be the same in all men. For all men are of the same species and, in varying degrees, are all furnished with the same conceptual tools and instruments of judgement.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Ach,' she says. 'There ain't nuffink in this world but men and women, is there? So you got to care about 'em, ain't you, else what you got to care about?
~ Michel Faber
Amy, his mother, is not the mending type. Her speciality is thrashing grown-up men until they whimper for mercy.
~ Michel Faber
It burns in her mind, branded there by Mrs Castaway: Wicked is what we can't help being, little one. The word was invented to describe us. Men love to wallow in sin; we are the sin they wallow in.
~ Michel Faber
For the madness of men is a divine spectacle: "In fact, could one make observations from the Moon, as did Menippus, considering the numberless agitations of the Earth, one would think one saw a swarm of flies or gnats fighting among themselves, struggling and laying traps, stealing from one another, playing, gamboling, falling, and dying, and one would not believe the troubles, the tragedies that were produced by such a minute animalcule destined to perish so shortly.
~ Michel Foucault
Alek didn't move, unsure what he could say or do to erase her pain. Like the rest of the Draig, he was a warrior, a fighter, used to the action of doing what needed to be done. But in this situation there was no giant fanged yorkin to hunt, no Var army to battle. There was only reality and the flawed nature of imperfect men. - Dragon Lords 6: The Stubborn Lord by Michelle M. Pillow - Coming 2013
~ Michelle M. Pillow
Pretty and beautiful are two different things. Only a few women are pretty, but even one who's not so hot to look at can be beautiful. A lot of guys make mistakes when they turn down a beautiful woman for one who's just pretty.
~ Mickey Spillane
Ia mengakui bisikan hatinya; bahwa laki-laki kebanyakan tak bisa dipercaya, dan bahwa harapan yang ia labuhkan pada Sasim adalah alang-alang yang telah patah - Zulaika
~ Mike Carey
to me it was looking like one of those logic problems that end up with the proposition that all men are Socrates, and Socrates is a rubber chicken.
~ Mike Carey
A burning church full of dead men in black gowns. Another one, in red, lying dead outside. And you, kneeling next to a woman who's been tied up with duct tape. I admit that looks fairly suspicious at first glance, I said.
~ Mike Carey
That's really bad, concluded the host, say what you will, but there's something evil lurking in men who avoid wine, games, the society of delightful women, table talk. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly hate those around them. True, exceptions are possible. Among those who have sat down with me at the banqueting table, there have sometimes been some astonishing scoundrels! And so, I'm listening to why you're here.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
There is, if you don't mind my saying so, something sinister about men who avoid wine, games, the company of charming women, and good dinner-table conversation. People like that are either seriously ill or they secretly disdain their fellow men.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
One must admit that even among intellectuals there are sometimes highly intelligent men; this cannot be denied. (100)
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Mon cher, je haïs les hommes pour ne pas les mépriser car autrement la vie serait une farce trop dégoûtante.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Querido mío, yo odio a los hombres para no despreciarlos, pues de lo contrario la vida sería una farsa demasiado asquerosa.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death.
~ Milan Kundera
How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.
~ Milan Kundera
Infatti non ignorava questo grande segreto della vita: le donne non cercano gli uomini belli. Le donne cercano gli uomini che hanno avuto donne belle.
~ Milan Kundera
Entre los hombres que van tras muchas mujeres podemos distinguir fácilmente entre dos categorías: Unos buscan su propio sueño subjetivo y siempre igual, sobre la mujer. Los segundos son impulsados por el deseo de apoderarse de la infinita variedad del mundo objetivo de la mujer
~ Milan Kundera
Los mujeriegos épicos, se alejan cada vez más, en su búsqueda del conocimiento, de la belleza femenina convencional, de la que se han hartado rápidamente, y terminan indefectiblemente como coleccionistas de curiosidades
~ Milan Kundera
Exist? un anumit num?r de întreb?ri feminine clasice, pe care orice b?rbat le afl? mai devreme sau mai târziu în viaÈ›a sa, întreb?ri pentru care institutele de înv???mânt ar trebui s? preg?teasc? tineretul studios.
~ Milan Kundera
Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
~ Milton Berle