Motivational Quotes

Men

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Men

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Miedzian, Myriam

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

Oakley, Ann

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

West, Mae

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.

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.

Baldwin, Faith

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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.

Lewis, Wyndham

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

West, Mae

12.

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.

Mcdowell, Mary

13.

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

Burroughs, John

14.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

15.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

17.

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Lewis, Wyndham

18.

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.

Paglia, Camille

19.

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

Bernikow, Louise

20.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

21.

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

22.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.

Mcginley, Phyllis

23.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

24.

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.

Anouilh, Jean

25.

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Newman, Andrea

26.

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.

Hwang, Brian

27.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

28.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Greer, Germaine

29.

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Nation, Carry

30.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

Barrie, Sir James M.

31.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Gable, Clark

32.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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.

Cope, Wendy

34.

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

Caesar, Julius

35.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

36.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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.

Auden, W. H.

38.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

Morgan, Robin

39.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

Stendhal, Henri B.

40.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for doing the best for his children?

Figes, Eva

41.

The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

Solanis, Valerie

42.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

44.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

45.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Rowland, Helen

46.

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

Mailer, Norman

47.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Stein, Gertrude

48.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

49.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

50.

It is a man's world, and you men can have it.

Porter, Katherine Anne