Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

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

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Garfield, James A.

11.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

12.

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

Burroughs, John

13.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

15.

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

Plato

16.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

19.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

20.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

Friedan, Betty

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Swift, Jonathan

27.

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

Caesar, Julius

28.

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

29.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

30.

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

31.

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

Newman, Andrea

32.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

37.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Morgan, Robin

46.

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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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

48.

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

Nation, Carry

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

West, Mae

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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