Motivational Quotes

Men

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Men

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Aleichem, Sholom

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

Solanis, Valerie

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

15.

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

Newman, Andrea

16.

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.

17.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

18.

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

Greer, Germaine

19.

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

20.

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

Mailer, Norman

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

24.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

25.

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

26.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

31.

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

32.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Garfield, James A.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Morgan, Robin

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

Parker, Dorothy

40.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Friedan, Betty

42.

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

Day, Doris

43.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

44.

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

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

46.

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

47.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

48.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

50.

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