Motivational Quotes

Men

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Men

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nation, Carry

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

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

Plato

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

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

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

10.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

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

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Greer, Germaine

17.

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

18.

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

Burroughs, John

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Caesar, Julius

23.

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

Friedan, Betty

24.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

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

26.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

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

32.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

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

34.

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

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.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

42.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

43.

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

Solanis, Valerie

44.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

45.

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

46.

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

Newman, Andrea

47.

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

Day, Doris

48.

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

Mailer, Norman

49.

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

50.

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