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

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Whately, Richard

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

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

Burroughs, John

17.

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

Solanis, Valerie

18.

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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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 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 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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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

23.

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

West, Mae

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

30.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Newman, Andrea

40.

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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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 the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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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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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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.

46.

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

Greer, Germaine