Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Morgan, Robin

Best Quotes about Men

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

West, Mae

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Whately, Richard

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

Day, Doris

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

Solanis, Valerie

10.

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

Nation, Carry

11.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Garfield, James A.

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.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

24.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

25.

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

26.

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

Caesar, Julius

27.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

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.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Burroughs, John

38.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

40.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

44.

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

45.

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

Parker, Dorothy

46.

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.

47.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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