Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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.

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Figes, Eva

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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.

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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

West, Mae

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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

Plato

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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

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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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

Burroughs, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Newman, Andrea

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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

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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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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

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

Day, Doris

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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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

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The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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