H. L. Mencken Quotes

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

My mother says ladies perspire and men sweat. Clearly, I am more of a man.

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

No, real men don't watch 'Deuce Bigelow.'

I feel like all guys are the same.

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.

Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.