Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Men

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.

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

Nation, Carry

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

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

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Mailer, Norman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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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 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

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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

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

Plato

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Solanis, Valerie

19.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

20.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

21.

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

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

Burroughs, John

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Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

28.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Whately, Richard

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Friedan, Betty

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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

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

Porter, Cole

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

Newman, Andrea

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

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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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

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

Day, Doris

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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