Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Men

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Newman, Andrea

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 aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

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

10.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

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

12.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

13.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

15.

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

Nation, Carry

16.

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

Greer, Germaine

17.

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

Solanis, Valerie

18.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

19.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

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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

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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

23.

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

24.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

25.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

26.

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

27.

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

Caesar, Julius

28.

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

29.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

30.

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

Whately, Richard

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

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

Parker, Dorothy

33.

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

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

36.

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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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

38.

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

Mailer, Norman

39.

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

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

41.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

42.

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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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

44.

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

45.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.

Fleming, Robert B.

50.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna