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

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

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

West, Mae

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

18.

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

Nation, Carry

19.

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

20.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

21.

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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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

23.

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

Solanis, Valerie

24.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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

27.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

30.

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

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

Garfield, James A.

32.

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

Parker, Dorothy

33.

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

Porter, Cole

34.

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

Mailer, Norman

35.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

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

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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.

42.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

West, Mae

45.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

48.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

49.

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

50.

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