Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Men

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

Friedan, Betty

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

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

West, Mae

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

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

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

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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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

West, Mae

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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

14.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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

Caesar, Julius

17.

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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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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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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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

21.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

22.

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

23.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Porter, Cole

25.

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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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

27.

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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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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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

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

33.

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

Solanis, Valerie

34.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

35.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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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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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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

42.

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

Nation, Carry

43.

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

Burroughs, John

45.

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

46.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Morgan, Robin

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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