Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Miedzian, Myriam

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Burroughs, John

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

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

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

Parker, Dorothy

13.

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.

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

16.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

17.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

18.

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

19.

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

Greer, Germaine

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

Garfield, James A.

22.

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

Porter, Cole

23.

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

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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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

30.

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

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

35.

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

Caesar, Julius

36.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

37.

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

38.

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

Nation, Carry

39.

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

40.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

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

42.

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

Solanis, Valerie

43.

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

44.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

46.

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

Day, Doris

47.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

49.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

50.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne