Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Mailer, Norman

Best Quotes about Men

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

Aleichem, Sholom

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

Friedan, Betty

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

10.

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

Nation, Carry

11.

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

12.

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

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

22.

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

Parker, Dorothy

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

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

25.

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

Morgan, Robin

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

40.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Burroughs, John

42.

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

Newman, Andrea

43.

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

Plato

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

50.

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

Solanis, Valerie