Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Fleming, Robert B.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Newman, Andrea

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

10.

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

11.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Caesar, Julius

13.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

14.

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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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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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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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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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Plato

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

25.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

27.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

28.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

West, Mae

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

Greer, Germaine

39.

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

Morgan, Robin

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The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

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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

46.

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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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

50.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne