Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Day, Doris

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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

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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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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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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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Figes, Eva

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

Nation, Carry

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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

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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

32.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Whately, Richard

34.

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

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

Porter, Cole

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Burroughs, John

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

Plato

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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