Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Men

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

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

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.

10.

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

Day, Doris

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.

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

Mailer, Norman

13.

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

Porter, Cole

14.

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

15.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

16.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Burroughs, John

21.

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

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

Caesar, Julius

24.

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

West, Mae

25.

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

26.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

30.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

31.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

32.

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

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

Newman, Andrea

35.

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

Nation, Carry

36.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

37.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

38.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Friedan, Betty

41.

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

West, Mae

42.

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

Parker, Dorothy

43.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

47.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Swift, Jonathan