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

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

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

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

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Porter, Cole

10.

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

Mailer, Norman

11.

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

12.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

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

14.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

15.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

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

Morgan, Robin

17.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

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

19.

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

Friedan, Betty

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Greer, Germaine

27.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

36.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

37.

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

38.

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

Solanis, Valerie

39.

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

40.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

41.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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 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

44.

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

45.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

Caesar, Julius

50.

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