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

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

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Whately, Richard

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

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

Day, Doris

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

Nation, Carry

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

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

10.

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

Greer, Germaine

11.

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

Newman, Andrea

12.

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

13.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

14.

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

15.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

16.

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.

17.

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

Porter, Cole

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

22.

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

West, Mae

23.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

28.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

29.

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

30.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

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

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

39.

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

Plato

40.

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.

41.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

42.

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

Garfield, James A.

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.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.