Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Newman, Andrea

Best Quotes about Men

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

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

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

Mailer, Norman

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

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

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

Nation, Carry

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

West, Mae

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

10.

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

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

13.

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

14.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

15.

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

16.

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

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

19.

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

20.

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

21.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Porter, Cole

26.

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

Newman, Andrea

27.

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

28.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

29.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

30.

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

31.

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

Solanis, Valerie

32.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

36.

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

Morgan, Robin

37.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

41.

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

42.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

43.

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

Friedan, Betty

44.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

46.

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

Caesar, Julius

47.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

50.

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