“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
What does it mean to be a man? These quotes explore masculinity, fatherhood, strength, vulnerability, and the evolving expectations placed on men by society, by women, and by themselves.
“Strong women only marry weak men.”
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
“Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.”
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”
“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
“We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.”
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.”
“The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.”
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
“It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.”
“If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.”
“Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.”
“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.”