Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Day, Doris

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

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

West, Mae

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

15.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

Porter, Cole

17.

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

18.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

19.

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

Day, Doris

20.

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

Newman, Andrea

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

24.

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

Friedan, Betty

25.

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

27.

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

Whately, Richard

28.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

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

Caesar, Julius

34.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

35.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

36.

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

Morgan, Robin

38.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Solanis, Valerie

40.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Garfield, James A.

43.

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

44.

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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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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Greer, Germaine

49.

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

50.

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