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

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

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

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

Greer, Germaine

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

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

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Solanis, Valerie

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

22.

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

Morgan, Robin

23.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

24.

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

Swift, Jonathan

25.

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

Plato

26.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Garfield, James A.

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

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

30.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Caesar, Julius

32.

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

Solanis, Valerie

33.

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.

34.

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.

35.

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

Porter, Cole

36.

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

37.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Ford, Anna

45.

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

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

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

Parker, Dorothy

48.

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

49.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

50.

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

West, Mae