quotations about men
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Notes on Virginia
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
SIGMUND FREUD
Civilization and Its Discontents
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Leaving Home
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Redux
It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
At Last
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Atlantic, 1965
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
attributed, Family Circle Magazine, August 9, 2005