30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Charles Bukowski
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    I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

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  • Author Charles Bukowski
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    I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

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  • Author Charles Bukowski
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    The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

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  • Author Charles Bukowski
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    I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

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  • Author Charles Farrar Browne
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    The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

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  • Author Charles Buxton
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    Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

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  • Author Charles Buxton
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    I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

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