Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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

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

West, Mae

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

12.

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

Newman, Andrea

13.

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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

15.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Porter, Cole

18.

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

Whately, Richard

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

Friedan, Betty

20.

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

Nation, Carry

21.

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

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

27.

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

Morgan, Robin

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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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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

30.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Greer, Germaine

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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

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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

34.

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 the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

36.

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

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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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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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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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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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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

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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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

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

West, Mae

48.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Barrie, Sir James M.