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

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

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

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

West, Mae

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

10.

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

Greer, Germaine

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

14.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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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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

19.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

20.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

21.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

22.

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

23.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

24.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

25.

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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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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

28.

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

Morgan, Robin

29.

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

Parker, Dorothy

30.

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

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

41.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

42.

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

Porter, Cole

43.

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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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

45.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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