Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Aleichem, Sholom

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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

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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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In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Miedzian, Myriam

13.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Porter, Cole

15.

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

Day, Doris

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Mailer, Norman

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Morgan, Robin

21.

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Nation, Carry

23.

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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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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

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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

28.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

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

West, Mae

31.

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

32.

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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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

34.

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

Newman, Andrea

35.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

36.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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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

38.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

Rowland, Helen

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

42.

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

West, Mae

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

Whately, Richard

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

47.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

48.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

49.

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

Plato

50.

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.