Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Men

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Porter, Cole

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Newman, Andrea

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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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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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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

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Nation, Carry

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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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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

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

Friedan, Betty

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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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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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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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.

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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

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The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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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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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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