Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Solanis, Valerie

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

Day, Doris

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

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

West, Mae

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

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

Friedan, Betty

10.

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

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

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

13.

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

Whately, Richard

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

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

Garfield, James A.

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

29.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

30.

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

31.

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Lewis, Wyndham

32.

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

Nation, Carry

33.

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

34.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

35.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

36.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

37.

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

38.

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

Swift, Jonathan

39.

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

Morgan, Robin

40.

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

41.

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

Porter, Cole

42.

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

Newman, Andrea

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

45.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

48.

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

49.

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

Parker, Dorothy

50.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon