30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Allan Bloom
  • Quote

    All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Allan Bloom
  • Quote

    Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ambrose Bierce
  • Quote

    ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ambrose Bierce
  • Quote

    DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author Ambrose Bierce
  • Quote

    Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ambrose Bierce
  • Quote

    A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ambrose Bierce
  • Quote

    OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ambrose Bierce
  • Quote

    A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

  • Tags
  • Share