Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Porter, Cole

Best Quotes about Men

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

West, Mae

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

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

Burroughs, John

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

10.

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

Nation, Carry

11.

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

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

Solanis, Valerie

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Mailer, Norman

20.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

25.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

26.

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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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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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.

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

Morgan, Robin

30.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

31.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

33.

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

34.

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

Newman, Andrea

35.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

36.

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

37.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

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

43.

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

Day, Doris

44.

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

Whately, Richard

45.

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

46.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

47.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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