Motivational Quotes

Men

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

West, Mae

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

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

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

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

10.

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

11.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

12.

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

Caesar, Julius

14.

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

Plato

15.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

16.

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.

17.

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

Rowland, Helen

18.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

19.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

20.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

21.

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

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

Greer, Germaine

24.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

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

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

Fleming, Robert B.

27.

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

28.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Porter, Cole

37.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

38.

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

Newman, Andrea

39.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

40.

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

Solanis, Valerie

41.

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

42.

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

Garfield, James A.

43.

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

Burroughs, John

44.

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

Whately, Richard

45.

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

Morgan, Robin

46.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

49.

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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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander