Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

West, Mae

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

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

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

Friedan, Betty

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

10.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

15.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

16.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

18.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Whately, Richard

20.

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

21.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

24.

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.

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.

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

Newman, Andrea

27.

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

Garfield, James A.

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

29.

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

30.

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

Parker, Dorothy

31.

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

Burroughs, John

32.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

33.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

34.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

39.

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Porter, Cole

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

47.

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

West, Mae

48.

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

Morgan, Robin

49.

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

50.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German