A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
~ Sholom Aleichem

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
~ Barbara De Angelis

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
~ Jean Anouilh

Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.
~ Margaret Atwood

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.
~ W. H. Auden

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.
~ W. H. Auden

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
~ Faith Baldwin

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
~ Sir James M. Barrie

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
~ Louise Bernikow

A true man hates no one.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
~ John Burroughs

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
~ Julius Caesar

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
~ Cher

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
~ Wendy Cope

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: ''If you truly love me, kill the bartender.''
~ Quentin Crisp

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
~ Doris Day

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
~ Marguerite Duras

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
~ Marguerite Duras