Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

Plato

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

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

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

Burroughs, John

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

Porter, Cole

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Morgan, Robin

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Ford, Anna

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

Solanis, Valerie

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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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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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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

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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 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

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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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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

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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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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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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

West, Mae

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

West, Mae

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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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

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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

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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Nation, Carry

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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

Newman, Andrea

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Someone has to stand up for wimps.