Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Nation, Carry

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

West, Mae

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Friedan, Betty

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

Morgan, Robin

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

10.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

11.

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

Whately, Richard

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

14.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

15.

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

16.

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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

18.

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

Caesar, Julius

19.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

20.

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

21.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

22.

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

Day, Doris

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

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

Solanis, Valerie

27.

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

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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.

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

31.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

32.

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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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

34.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

37.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

38.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

40.

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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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 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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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

44.

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

45.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

Parker, Dorothy

47.

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

Burroughs, John

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