Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Men

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Plato

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

Whately, Richard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Solanis, Valerie

10.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Burroughs, John

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

18.

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

Nation, Carry

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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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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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Mailer, Norman

25.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

26.

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

27.

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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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

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

30.

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

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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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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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

35.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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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

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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

44.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

45.

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

West, Mae

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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 aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

48.

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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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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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