Motivational Quotes

Men

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

- Cher

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Fleming, Robert B.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

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 the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

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

10.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

15.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

19.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Porter, Cole

23.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Caesar, Julius

25.

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

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

Friedan, Betty

27.

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

28.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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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

30.

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

Burroughs, John

31.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

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

33.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

36.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

37.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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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

45.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

46.

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

Newman, Andrea

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

49.

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

Morgan, Robin

50.

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