Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

Burroughs, John

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

West, Mae

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

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

Porter, Cole

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

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Plato

10.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

11.

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

Caesar, Julius

12.

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

13.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Parker, Dorothy

17.

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

18.

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

Friedan, Betty

19.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

20.

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

Nation, Carry

21.

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

West, Mae

22.

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

23.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

26.

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

Day, Doris

27.

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

Whately, Richard

28.

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

29.

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

Solanis, Valerie

30.

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

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

33.

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

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Garfield, James A.

36.

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

37.

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

Solanis, Valerie

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Morgan, Robin

41.

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

42.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Swift, Jonathan

47.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

48.

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

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

50.

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