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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.

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Even the most enlightened pansexual boys can turn into ghosts.

Jacob Tobia

Man lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle.

George Herbert Mead George Herbert Mead (1926)

We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman.

Rishi Sunak

A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

Saul Gorn

Everywhere in the world, young men and women like what is forbidden.

Massimo Introvigne

If one has deserted the world, but one thought still inclines to worldliness, he is not considered as free man nor an ascetic; his inner defilement still survives.

Mian Mir The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

The man without Christ is dust and shadow.

Paulinus of Nola

This very remarkable man
Commends a most practical plan:
You can do what you want
If you don't think you can't,
So don't think you can't – think you can.

Charles Inge

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

Erving Goffman

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

Richard Weaver

Police officers are the best of us. Men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic – they put their lives on the line every single day.

Mike Pence

I would desire that every man would lay his hand on his heart, and consider seriously whether the beginning of the people's happiness should be written in letters of blood.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

A thousand years a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?

William R. Alger

This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Adam

Solid men of Boston, banish long potations!
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!

Charles Morris

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

James Russell Lowell On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington (1845)

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Norman Mailer The Presidential Papers (1963)

On the other hand, society does not see anything wrong with a man who has more relationships, they are viewed as champions while we (women) are called names so I am zipping my mouth now.

Yvonne Okoro

Not every man is greater than every woman, nor every woman inferior to every man.

Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

Robert Jordan The Eye of the World (1990)

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