Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Porter, Cole

Best Quotes about Men

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

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

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.

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

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

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

Friedan, Betty

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Plato

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

Porter, Katherine Anne

10.

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

Porter, Cole

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

Mailer, Norman

15.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

18.

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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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

20.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

21.

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

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

24.

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

Burroughs, John

25.

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

26.

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

Garfield, James A.

27.

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

Nation, Carry

28.

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

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

30.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Whately, Richard

32.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

33.

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

34.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

35.

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

36.

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

Solanis, Valerie

37.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

38.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Day, Doris

42.

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

Newman, Andrea

43.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Parker, Dorothy

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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