Famous Quotes about Men (99 Quotations)

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

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

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

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

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers — because males have got to try and justify their existence.

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.

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

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

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

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

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

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.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

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.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

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

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

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

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Men are creatures with eight hands.