Body Quote by Chinua Achebe

They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only the silent…

— Chinua Achebe

That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

— Anonymous

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

— Livy

“Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him…

— Maggie Stiefvater

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

— Charles Spurgeon

“all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and…

— James Baldwin

“He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked. You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their…

— Jean Plaidy

“How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain”

— Nietzsche Friedrich

“...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak.…

— Will Christopher Baer

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which…

— John Ruskin

“Men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. Wherefore the injury we do…

— Niccolò Machiavelli