Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

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

Plato

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

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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

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

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

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

Caesar, Julius

13.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

14.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

15.

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

16.

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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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

24.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

25.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

26.

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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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

28.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Greer, Germaine

30.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

31.

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

Friedan, Betty

33.

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

Nation, Carry

34.

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

Porter, Cole

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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

37.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

38.

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

Morgan, Robin

39.

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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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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Ford, Anna

42.

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

Newman, Andrea

43.

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

Mailer, Norman

44.

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

Solanis, Valerie

45.

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

Parker, Dorothy

46.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

47.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

48.

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

Solanis, Valerie

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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