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

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

West, Mae

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

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

Friedan, Betty

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Burroughs, John

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

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

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

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Miedzian, Myriam

10.

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

Newman, Andrea

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

13.

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

Porter, Cole

14.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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

18.

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

Parker, Dorothy

19.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

20.

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

Nation, Carry

21.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

22.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

30.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

33.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

34.

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

35.

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

Greer, Germaine

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

38.

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

Whately, Richard

39.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

40.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Solanis, Valerie

49.

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

50.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Mailer, Norman