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Men Quotes and Quotations
 Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. - Mae West  It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role. Macho does not prove mucho. No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women. The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. Men become old, but they never become good. Men are what their mothers made them. Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness. To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human. A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can. The right man is the one that seizes the moment. - Goethe Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else. This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven. The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time. There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish. Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons. As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him. Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience. In his private heart no man much respects himself. When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part. A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all. Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain. - Plato 
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