Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Friedan, Betty

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

Porter, Cole

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

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

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

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

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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

11.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Day, Doris

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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

14.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

15.

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

16.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

17.

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

18.

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

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

Newman, Andrea

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

Burroughs, John

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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

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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

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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

25.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

26.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

28.

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

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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

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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

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

West, Mae

32.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

34.

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

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

Nation, Carry

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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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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

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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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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

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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.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Whately, Richard

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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

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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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

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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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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

Caesar, Julius