Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Porter, Cole

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

Nation, Carry

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

West, Mae

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

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Garfield, James A.

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

10.

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

Burroughs, John

11.

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

12.

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

Day, Doris

13.

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.

14.

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

Caesar, Julius

15.

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

16.

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

Newman, Andrea

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.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Swift, Jonathan

21.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

22.

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

Solanis, Valerie

23.

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

24.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

25.

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

26.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

27.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

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

Friedan, Betty

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

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

Mailer, Norman

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

Plato

49.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

50.

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