Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram
Karl Kraus
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men
Benjamin Disraeli
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.
Lao Tzu
Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
Henry Louis Mencken
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D.H. Lawrence
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
Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren.... Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
George Gilder
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.
Kent Nerburn
The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.
Frank Pittman
The freedom of authentic masculinity is an amazing thing to see. It produces a "divine elasticity" in men. Finally they can lead with firmness, then submit with humility. They can challenge with a cutting edge, then encourage with enthusiasm. They can fight aggressively for just causes, then moments later weep over suffering.
Bill Hybels