Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Men

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

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

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

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

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

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

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

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

Greer, Germaine

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

13.

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

Friedan, Betty

14.

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

15.

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

Whately, Richard

16.

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

17.

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

Day, Doris

18.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

20.

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

Burroughs, John

21.

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

22.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

23.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

24.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

26.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Newman, Andrea

33.

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

34.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

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

Fleming, Robert B.

37.

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

Miedzian, Myriam

38.

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

Nation, Carry

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

41.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Porter, Cole