Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty.
Men Quotes
Little here is prose, and the list is short. Shakespeare leads, then Byron, Pope, Dryden and Josiah Gilbert Holland. Byron’s lines are the best-sourced: sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die in moulding Sheridan (1816), and the Manfred passage (1817) on men who name themselves sovereigns of the earth yet are half dust, half deity.
The one flagged entry is “The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man,” credited to Madame de Staël and marked disputed.
Men may rule the world, but women rule the men who rule the world.
Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.
Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.
Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Perhaps man is the creature who, once struck down, defines himself by his ability to rise.
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.