Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Miedzian, Myriam

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Morgan, Robin

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

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

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

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

Fleming, Robert B.

10.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

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

Garfield, James A.

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

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

21.

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

West, Mae

22.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

23.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

24.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

25.

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

26.

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

Day, Doris

27.

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

Mailer, Norman

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

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.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

33.

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

Nation, Carry

34.

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

Whately, Richard

35.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

40.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

41.

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

Burroughs, John

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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

Porter, Cole

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

48.

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

Plato

49.

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

West, Mae

50.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.