Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

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

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

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

10.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

11.

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

Newman, Andrea

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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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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

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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Caesar, Julius

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Anouilh, Jean

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

19.

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

Morgan, Robin

20.

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

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

22.

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

23.

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

Friedan, Betty

24.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Solanis, Valerie

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

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

Burroughs, John

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

Nation, Carry

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

Parker, Dorothy

34.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

35.

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

Porter, Cole

36.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

37.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

38.

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 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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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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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

42.

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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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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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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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.

Miedzian, Myriam

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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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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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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