Motivational Quotes

Men

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

Best Quotes about Men

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.

The little man is still a man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Miedzian, Myriam

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

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.

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

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

Fleming, Robert B.

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.

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

11.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

12.

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

13.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

14.

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

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

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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

23.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

26.

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

Caesar, Julius

28.

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

Day, Doris

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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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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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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Tuckerman

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Nation, Carry

38.

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

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

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

Porter, Cole

45.

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

Morgan, Robin

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

48.

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

Burroughs, John

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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

50.

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