Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Men

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

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

West, Mae

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

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

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

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

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

10.

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

Caesar, Julius

11.

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

Morgan, Robin

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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

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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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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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

19.

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

Porter, Cole

20.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

West, Mae

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

32.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

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

Parker, Dorothy

34.

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

Nation, Carry

35.

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

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

Friedan, Betty

41.

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

Newman, Andrea

42.

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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

44.

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

Swift, Jonathan

45.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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