Motivational Quotes

Men

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

- Cher

Best Quotes about Men

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

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

Miedzian, Myriam

10.

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

Solanis, Valerie

11.

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

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

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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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

15.

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

16.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

17.

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

Whately, Richard

18.

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

19.

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

Porter, Cole

20.

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

21.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

27.

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

28.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Day, Doris

29.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

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.

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

Newman, Andrea

35.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

38.

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

Mailer, Norman

39.

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

Nation, Carry

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