Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

13.

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

Solanis, Valerie

14.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

Morgan, Robin

19.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

20.

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

21.

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

Whately, Richard

22.

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

Porter, Cole

23.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

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

Day, Doris

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

Oakley, Ann

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Rowland, Helen

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

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

Burroughs, John

41.

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

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Newman, Andrea

44.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

45.

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

Mailer, Norman

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

49.

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

50.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German