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 have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.
The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.