Motivational Quotes

Men

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Men

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

Mailer, Norman

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

Plato

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

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

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

Caesar, Julius

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

10.

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

Nation, Carry

11.

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

Solanis, Valerie

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Newman, Andrea

20.

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

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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

22.

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

Porter, Cole

23.

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.

24.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

26.

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

27.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

28.

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

Burroughs, John

29.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

Garfield, James A.

31.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

32.

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

33.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

34.

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

35.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

36.

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

Parker, Dorothy

37.

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

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

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

Morgan, Robin

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

45.

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

46.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

47.

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

48.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

49.

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

Friedan, Betty

50.

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

Solanis, Valerie