Motivational Quotes

Men

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

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Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Parker, Dorothy

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

10.

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

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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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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Nation, Carry

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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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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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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

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

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

West, Mae

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

30.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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.

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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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

35.

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

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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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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

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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

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Greer, Germaine

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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

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

Plato

44.

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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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

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

West, Mae

49.

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

Solanis, Valerie

50.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.