The tenderest spot in a man’s make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
—American Indian Proverb
Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
—Ann Oakley (b.1944) English Sociologist, Writer, Feminist
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
—Arthur Helps (1813–75) British Essayist, Historian
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
A successful man is one who lays a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
—Swami Chinmayananda (1916–93) Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
—Malcolm de Chazal (1902–81) Mauritian Writer, Painter, Philosopher
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader
Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
—Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American Aviator
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
—Matthew Arnold (1822–88) English Poet, Critic
It’s a man’s world, and you men can have it.
—Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American Short-Story Writer, Novelist
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
—Russian Proverb
A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It’s the same with men.
—Lupe Velez (1908–44) Mexican Stage, Film Actress
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.
—James Allen (1864–1912) British Philosophical Writer
I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
—George William Curtis (1824–92) American Writer, Editor, Orator
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
If you treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation—they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.
—W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist
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