“Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.”
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.
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
“Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
“I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.”
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”
“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“By indignities men come to dignities.”
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”