Motivational Quotes

Men

Men are creatures with eight hands.

- Mansfield, Jane

Best Quotes about Men

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Plato

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

West, Mae

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

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

Newman, Andrea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Solanis, Valerie

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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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

West, Mae

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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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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

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

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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.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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

Day, Doris

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Whately, Richard

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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

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

Burroughs, John

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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

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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

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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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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

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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

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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