Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Men

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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God divided man into men, that they might help each other.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

Men are but children, too, though they have gray hairs; they are only of a larger size.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield (1831–81) American Head of State, Lawyer, Educator

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don’t see it—but there is.
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) South African Writer, Feminist

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
John Chrysostom (c.347–407 CE) Archbishop of Constantinople

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.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
Russell Hoban (1925–2011) American Novelist, Children’s Writer

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) English Aristocrat, Poet, Novelist, Writer

The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg.
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British Head of State

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

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.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
Erica Jong (b.1942) American Novelist, Feminist

He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Richard Crashaw (c.1613–1649) English Religious Poet

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
Indira Gandhi (1917–84) Indian Head of State

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.
Yoko Ono (b.1933) Japanese Artist, Musician, Campaigner

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

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.
Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Writer of Children’s Books

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda Meir (1898–1978) Israeli Head of State

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich (1901–92) German-American Film Actress, Cabaret Performer

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet

A man’s idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) American Author, Writer, Humorist

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
Arthur Helps (1813–75) British Essayist, Historian

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