Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Men

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

Whately, Richard

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

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Porter, Cole

10.

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 little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

15.

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Greer, Germaine

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

23.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

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

Solanis, Valerie

27.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

28.

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

29.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Plato

34.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nation, Carry

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

West, Mae

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

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

Aleichem, Sholom