Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Rowland, Helen

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

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Whately, Richard

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

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

Porter, Cole

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Plato

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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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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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

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

West, Mae

13.

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

Parker, Dorothy

14.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

15.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

25.

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.

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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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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

Friedan, Betty

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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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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

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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

Greer, Germaine

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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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

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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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

46.

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

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon