Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

Morgan, Robin

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

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

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

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

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Burroughs, John

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nation, Carry

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

Garfield, James A.

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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

West, Mae

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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.

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There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.

Fleming, Robert B.

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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

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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

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Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Friedan, Betty

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

34.

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

Gilder, George

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.