Quotes of Masculinity - somelinesforyou

“ In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Only when manhood is dead — and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it — only then will we know what it is to be free. ”

- Andrea Dworkin

“ A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ I want more thought and less fear, more manhood and less superstition. ”

- Robert G. Ingersoll

“ No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. ”

- Richard Francis Burton

“ There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Do what thy manhood bids thee do,/ From none but self expect applause:/ He noblest lives and noblest dies/ Who makes and keeps his self-made laws. ”

- Richard Burton

“ Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ”

- Adam Clarke

“ Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all, tet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, giveing us manhood or womanhood fiber. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Greatness meant strength. Strength meant masculinity. Masculinity meant heterosexuality. Heterosexuality meant facade. Maintain facade for the world to see. Cheat in the dark abyss of the soul. ”

- Arthur Bell

“ Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. ”

- Sir Richard Francis Burton

“ Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit. ”

- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

“ Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — manhood, character, stand for success…nothing else really does. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ”

- Kent Nerburn

“ They feel cheated of a useful role in society, and that's what manhood has historically been grounded in. ”

- Susan Faludi

“ In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still! ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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