“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
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.
“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.”
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”
“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.”
“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”
“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”
“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”
“Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”