Motivational Quotes

Men

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.

Best Quotes about Men

All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Day, Doris

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

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

West, Mae

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

Rowland, Helen

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

Rowland, Helen

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Auden, W. H.

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To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

Solanis, Valerie

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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Morgan, Robin

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A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Mailer, Norman

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The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Garfield, James A.

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Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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

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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

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

Burroughs, John

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Lerner, Max

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I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Sitwell, Dame Edith

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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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.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

West, Mae

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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

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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.

Atwood, Margaret

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He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Porter, Cole

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Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.

Fleming, Robert B.

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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.

Gilder, George

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

Nation, Carry

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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

King, Florence

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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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