Motivational Quotes

Men

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.

Best Quotes about Men

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

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

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

Burroughs, John

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Nation, Carry

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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

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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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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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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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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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

Newman, Andrea

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You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Morgan, Robin

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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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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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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

Friedan, Betty

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

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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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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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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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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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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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