Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Men

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Burroughs, John

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

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

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

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

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

Newman, Andrea

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Parker, Dorothy

10.

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

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

13.

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

14.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

17.

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

Caesar, Julius

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

23.

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

24.

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

Garfield, James A.

25.

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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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.

27.

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

Nation, Carry

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

Friedan, Betty

35.

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

36.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

38.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

41.

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

Mailer, Norman

42.

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

43.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

Morgan, Robin

45.

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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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

47.

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

48.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

49.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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