Motivational Quotes

Men

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Nation, Carry

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

Plato

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

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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

13.

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

Porter, Cole

14.

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

Newman, Andrea

15.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Whately, Richard

16.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

19.

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

20.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for doing the best for his children?

Figes, Eva

21.

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

22.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

23.

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

Caesar, Julius

24.

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

25.

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

Solanis, Valerie

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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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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

36.

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

Solanis, Valerie

37.

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

Day, Doris

38.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

39.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

West, Mae

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

45.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

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

Aleichem, Sholom