Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Men

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

Porter, Cole

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Newman, Andrea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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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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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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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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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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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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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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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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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nation, Carry

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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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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 aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Greer, Germaine

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

West, Mae

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

Whately, Richard

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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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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Plato

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

Burroughs, John

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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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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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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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 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