Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Swift, Jonathan

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Ford, Anna

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

Porter, Cole

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

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

10.

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

Nation, Carry

11.

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

Plato

12.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

13.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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

Day, Doris

15.

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.

16.

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

Newman, Andrea

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

21.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Friedan, Betty

22.

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

Solanis, Valerie

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

25.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

28.

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

Mailer, Norman

29.

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

30.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

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

32.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

Burroughs, John

35.

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

36.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

37.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Crisp, Quentin

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Miedzian, Myriam

43.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

46.

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Vidal, Gore

47.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

48.

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

Caesar, Julius

49.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.