Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Men

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.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

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

Morgan, Robin

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Newman, Andrea

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

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

14.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

15.

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

Mailer, Norman

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

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.

19.

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

Solanis, Valerie

20.

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

21.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

22.

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

Garfield, James A.

23.

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

Whately, Richard

24.

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

25.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

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

Friedan, Betty

28.

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

Solanis, Valerie

29.

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

Day, Doris

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

33.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

40.

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

Porter, Cole

41.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Swift, Jonathan

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett