Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about 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

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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

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

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

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

18.

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

Solanis, Valerie

19.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

21.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

Friedan, Betty

23.

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

Whately, Richard

24.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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

27.

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

Solanis, Valerie

28.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

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

Caesar, Julius

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Nation, Carry

33.

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

Day, Doris

34.

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

Plato

35.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Garfield, James A.

40.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

42.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Mailer, Norman

46.

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

47.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German