Males Quotes

• A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

  Carrie Snow

  Inspiring, Women, Glowing

  110 Copy quote

• The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, Equality, Demigods

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

  Huey Newton

  Positive, Media, White

  "On the Culture Front: Music from the Underground, Part 9" by Chris Kompanek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2017.

  187 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brother’s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legs—just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Pain, Boys

  17 Copy quote

• As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Relationship, Women

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.117, Courier Corporation

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Beer

  73 Copy quote
• 

  Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Sex, Men, Age

  217 Copy quote

• Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Hilarious, Women

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both."-

  Janet Evanovich

  Funny, Men, Next Week

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Feb 13, 2014

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

  Mel Gibson

  Love, Funny, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Carrie Nation

  Drinking, Beer, Men

  100 Copy quote

• Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

  Belle de Jour

  Pain, Epic, Men

  16 Copy quote

• This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sex, Ideas, Female

  7 Copy quote

• The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

  Sharon Gless

  Tone, Tvs, Whole

  7 Copy quote

• We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys, Simple, Energy

  20 Copy quote

• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Two, White, Black

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Female, Half, Male Dominance

  35 Copy quote

• The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Erotic, Brotherhood

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

  Norman Lear

  Father, Black, Good Times

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

  Gary Gygax

  Travel, Adventure, Humanity

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, Years, Black

  "A Conversation with Ishmael Reed". Interview with Reginald Martin, www.dalkeyarchive.com. July 1-7, 1983.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Numbers, Lust

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.40, Andrews McMeel Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

  Jane Elliott

  Years, Acting, Female

  36 Copy quote

• I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Games, Play, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

  Ron Chernow

  Writing, White, Favors

  8 Copy quote