Motivational Quotes

Men

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Porter, Cole

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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.

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

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

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

West, Mae

10.

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

11.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

23.

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

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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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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Greer, Germaine

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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

Newman, Andrea

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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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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Morgan, Robin

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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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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

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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