Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Solanis, Valerie

Best Quotes about Men

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

Plato

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

West, Mae

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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 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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

11.

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

Newman, Andrea

12.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Day, Doris

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Friedan, Betty

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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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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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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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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

Whately, Richard

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Nation, Carry

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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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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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 little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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.