Motivational Quotes

Men

The little man is still a man.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Nation, Carry

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Newman, Andrea

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

Plato

10.

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

11.

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

West, Mae

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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 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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Porter, Cole

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Friedan, Betty

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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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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Solanis, Valerie

32.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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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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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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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

46.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

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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