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Quotes About Manhood

Here in America a man ain't a man unless he's got three or four whores and a late model car. All right, I'm a little drunk. Maybe that's why I mock myself. But put a new car and 3 women on my back and I'm fucked. I don't have a t.v. I don't even have a radio. A big Brazilian cunt who wants to put that thing on me, calls me the last of the monsters.
~ Charles Bukowski
Don't you want to be happy , Henry? asked my mother. You never smile. Smile and be happy. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, said my father. Be a man! Smile, Henry!
~ Charles Bukowski
As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.
~ Thomas Van Nortwick
War makes you a man; war makes you dead.
~ Tim O'Brien
You idiot! There's no better or worse when it comes to a man's life!! If you're gonna stake your life, it has to be on equal terms!! It could be your boss or your subordinate…only die for somebody who'll die for you!! Being eager to give up your life isn't manly! It's a kid trying to act tough! You got that, you little punk?
~ Tite Kubo
To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the place where the ultimate decision was made on the basis of courage and skill, on the basis of manhood itself, and it was this concept that marked the professional soldier as a romantic, a person who truly believed in the rules.
~ Tom Clancy
Men who knew their manhood lay in their guns and were not even embarrassed by the knowledge that without gunshot fox would laugh at them.
~ Toni Morrison
I don't want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man." "Don't we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—quicklike, and don't bring me no whiteboy sass." Hunter's Hunter and Godlen Gray
~ Toni Morrison
A man ain't nothing but a man, said Baby Suggs. But a son? Well now, that's somebody
~ Toni Morrison
This is what separates the men from the boys. Because as a kingdom man, you get to name things. Better yet, as a man under God's authority, you get to name things
~ Tony Evans
Any man who has to wear another man's name on the back of his shirt may need to ask himself how he views his own manhood.
~ Tony Evans
M. Masculinity, Manhood. What makes a man a Man? As a woman at the dawn of mid-life, I can confess to having learned, for sure, that I have more testosterone in my right foot then most men have surging around their entire bodies. You don't have to be born with balls to have balls. There is spunk and there is mental spunk, and it's the latter that gets me up in the mornings, that makes me change my life, that moves the world around me.
~ Tracey Emin
He was a man, and it was expected of him to achieve.
~ Tracy Chevalier
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants.
~ Kevin Smith
Guns, we don't like to use 'emUnless our enemies choose 'emWe prefer to fight you on like a man andBeat you down with our hands, and bodyslam youAt the wild, wild west.
~ Kool Moe Dee
The truth is that a lot of these men don't know how to relate to lovers, so they only view women as sisters or mothers. It truly grieves me! I feel so bad for all these daughters who are awakened for love, but are living among boy/men who are asleep to manhood.
~ Kris Vallotton
A male was transformed into a man by the willful expenditure of energy. Above all, a man willed himself to be expendable. Like the sun, a man fed the fire of his honor on his own substance. The magnus animus, the animus virilis, squandered itself in contempt of its own dear life.
~ Carlin A. Barton
a couple of fountains and four giant slabs of marble containing Roosevelt quotes. They're labeled "Nature," "Youth," "The State," and "Manhood." "They put those up in the '60s," says Tilly. "I think it was kind of a sexist decade." You
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.
~ George R.R. Martin
Are you certain they never cut your member off?" Tormund gave a shrug, as if to say he would never understand such madness. "Well, you are a free man now, but if you will have the girl, best find yourself a she-bear. If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller, until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it.
~ George R.R. Martin
A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
It is not, in the common and cheap misuse of the term, the most "romantic" arrangement, but some not imperfect in lovelore have held that a woman's love is never so strong as when she is past girlhood and well approaching age, and that a man's is never stronger than when he is just not a boy.
~ George Saintsbury
Tohr shook his head. If you're going to get plastered, why can't you do it like areal man. I like the taste of fruit. You are what you drink. The angel glanced up at the clock, Shit. I missed Maury. But, I DVR'd Ellen.
~ J.R. Ward