Motivational Quotes

Men

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Men

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Burroughs, John

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

Solanis, Valerie

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

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

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

Newman, Andrea

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

10.

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

Solanis, Valerie

11.

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

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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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

14.

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

Greer, Germaine

15.

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

Porter, Cole

16.

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

Nation, Carry

17.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

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

Mailer, Norman

19.

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

Day, Doris

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

30.

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'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

32.

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

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

33.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

34.

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

Garfield, James A.

35.

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

36.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

37.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Caesar, Julius

41.

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

42.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

43.

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

44.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Morgan, Robin

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