Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Men

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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

Burroughs, John

10.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

11.

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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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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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

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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.

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

West, Mae

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

Solanis, Valerie

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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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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Nation, Carry

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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

Whately, Richard

24.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

30.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Newman, Andrea

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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

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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

41.

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

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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

43.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Porter, Cole

45.

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

Plato

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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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Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

48.

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

West, Mae