Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

West, Mae

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aleichem, Sholom

10.

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

Friedan, Betty

11.

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

Morgan, Robin

12.

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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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

14.

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

Nation, Carry

15.

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

Burroughs, John

16.

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

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

19.

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

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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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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.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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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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

25.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

26.

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.

27.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

28.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

31.

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

32.

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

Newman, Andrea

34.

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

Solanis, Valerie

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Greer, Germaine

37.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

38.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

39.

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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

41.

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

Mailer, Norman

42.

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

43.

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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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

45.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

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

48.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

49.

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

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