Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Men

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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

13.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

14.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Fleming, Robert B.

19.

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

Garfield, James A.

20.

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

Nation, Carry

21.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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'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

28.

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

Solanis, Valerie

29.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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 only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

West, Mae

33.

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

Friedan, Betty

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Mailer, Norman

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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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Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

40.

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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Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

Morgan, Robin

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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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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

46.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

47.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

48.

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

Porter, Cole

49.

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

Caesar, Julius