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

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Newman, Andrea

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

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

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

Nation, Carry

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Rowland, Helen

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

West, Mae

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Plato

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

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

Friedan, Betty

31.

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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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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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

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The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

Solanis, Valerie

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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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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

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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

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

West, Mae

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

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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

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

Caesar, Julius