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M$5.40 September 24, 2009 04:14 PM

Looking for a quote on what motivates men--in relation to impressing women.

I'm looking for a memorable quote (think ) around the subject of what motivates men--specifically in relation to men trying to impress, meet, court, etc. women.

Funny, deep, soulful... whatever! Please provide link to where you found the quote.
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September 24, 2009 04:34 PM
A funny one from Orson Wells

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys."

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41943/

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September 24, 2009 08:18 PM
nailed it!

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September 25, 2009 02:55 PM
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September 24, 2009 04:25 PM
copulation is the only motivation, is it not?!

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September 24, 2009 08:15 PM
Yes, I believe Sex is the driving force for what we are today.

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September 24, 2009 06:14 PM
" Heres lookin at you kid. "

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They don't make them like they used to I guess, this quote while it might be old, its just one you can't ignore, it brings back a classic euphoria and confidence that no matter what happens. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow but someday, that one that got away might come strolling back.

Simple. Solid. Soulful. And has roots besides.

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September 24, 2009 06:24 PM
--quote--
Calm down, calm down. She likes you. She wants to suck on your penis. That's a good thing. It's the best.
---/quote---

Evan in Superbad
Source(s):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829482/quotes


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September 24, 2009 06:36 PM
I don't conquer, I submit.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

by: giocomo casanova

Source(s):
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/giacomocas205828.html


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September 24, 2009 07:20 PM
"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
A quote from one of the Greatest TV Star of All Time -Lucille Ball

http://www.loti.com/articles/Timeless_Laughter_html_m4d95ba57.jpg

A man has to be brave to say that he is not funny.
A man must be brave to say that he is brave.

Hope that this quote will impress her or at least make her laugh.

This quote will be even funnier if it is from Homer Simpson.

http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~emb/imagens/homer_simpson.jpg
Source(s):
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lucille_ball.html


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September 24, 2009 07:34 PM
Aside from satisfying physiological urges inherent to all sexually reproducing animals, man is also motivated to impress women to fulfill his sometimes contradicting role in society, that of leader and of obedient servant.

In impressing a woman, a man hopes to gain a mate, over whom he shall impose his paternalistic role of family/tribal leader; yet, at the same time, he hopes to gain a mate that will not only comfort him in times of turmoil, but perhaps even tell him what to do when he strays.

It comes down to the classic manly roar of, Me Man, Me king of Castle, until he gets balled out by the wife for not taking the trash out.

This quote by Lord Byron exemplifies this, it is basically the can't live with them, can't live without them, but in a far more eloquent tone.

"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

Hope this helps.
Source(s):
http://ncgsjournal.com/murray.htm


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September 24, 2009 07:46 PM
Here a few quotes covering the motivation part of what drives men to impress women:

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
British novelist and essayist
Source: http://classiclit.about.com/od/roomofonesownvw/a/aa_room_quote.htm

"With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works."
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
English novelist
Source: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26157/

"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
English writer
Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/david_herbert_lawrence_5.html

"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."
Shirley MacLaine (1934 - Present)
American Actress
Source: http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/535154/shirley-maclaine/the-best-way-to-get-husbands-to-do-something-is-to

"Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way."
Dr. Phil McGraw (1940 - Present)
American Psychologist and Radio Talk Show Host
Source: http://www.quotemonk.com/quotes/relationship_quotes.htm

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. "
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
German American Theoretical Physicist
Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/courting.html

"I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself."
Henry Rollins (1969 - Present)
American Singer, Actor and Poet
Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/like/i-want-to-meet-a-woman-that-will-make-me-stop-and/1095175/

“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
Madame de Stael (1766-1817)
French Political Propagandist
Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/madame_de_stael/

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
Jane Smiley (1949 - Present)
American Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/in-my-experience-there-is-only-one-motivation-and/362219.html

On a funny side note, here's an article on a study that scientifically proves men lose their wits in front of attractive women:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6132718/Men-lose-their-minds-speaking-to-pretty-women.html
- - - quote - - -
"When a man meets a pretty woman, he is what we call 'reproductively focused'. "
- - - end quote - - -

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September 24, 2009 07:55 PM
“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”

-W.C. Fileds

Source(s):
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/impressing/


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September 24, 2009 08:12 PM
I like this quote from Marianne Williamson.

"Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace". ~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

Its gaining these nuances of attraction and understanding that will motivate me.

This one from William Shakespeare is fine as well.

"Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal." -- William Shakespeare

I like to be a student of both languages and that will certainly motivate me as well.
Source(s):
http://www.quotegarden.com/women.html
http://www.millenniumartglass.com/fem-beauty.html


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September 24, 2009 08:16 PM
Here's one of my favorites... shows we're in it together

"The secret of culture is to lean that a few great points steadily reappear... and, that these few are alone to be graded: the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are, and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials, these, and the wish to serve, to add something to the well-being of men and women."

Emerson

To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own. ~Mike Dobbertin

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson

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September 24, 2009 09:16 PM
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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quote -
"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
- endquote

~~~ Robert Anson Heinlein
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The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A. Heinlein


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September 24, 2009 09:20 PM
“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”~~George Jean Nathan

It's the only reasonable explanation that I can find for why the man I love returns those feelings.
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http://thinkexist.com/quotes/george_jean_nathan/


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September 24, 2009 10:15 PM
Here are three quotes I believe are quite memorable and still give an idea of what motivates men to impress women.

"There are three things men can do with women: Love them, suffer for them or turn them into literature." -Stephen Stills
http://www.etni.org.il/quotes/menwomen.htm

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." -Brendan Frances
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a man is already halfway in love with any woman/200560.html

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." -Woodrow Wyatt
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a man falls in love through his eyes-a woman/9544.html
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http://thinkexist.com/
http://www.etni.org.il/


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September 25, 2009 04:48 AM
This sums it up to me;
___quote___

"Man puts himself at once on the level of the beast if he seeks to gratify lust alone, but he elevates his superior position when, by curbing the animal desire, he combines with the sexual functions ideas of morality, of the sublime, and of the beautiful."

___end quote___

http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/giornate/questa_edizione_immagini/Merry-Widow1172_003.jpg

Baron Richard von Krafft-Ebing
(14 Aug 1840 - 22 Dec 1902)
German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/lcp/retratosdelahistoria/myfiles/Baron-Richard-von-Krafft-Ebing_1840-1902.JPG
Source(s):
'The Great Thoughts'
Compiled by: George Seldes
Revised Edition: May 1996


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September 25, 2009 12:31 PM
For thousands of years there has been Man. A few hours after Man was created, so too was Woman. Twice the beauty and only half the driving skills. And for thousands of years, Man has done utterly asinine things on account of Woman. Men have climbed the highest mountains, waged catastrophic wars, built epic monuments in their honor, painted them beautiful pictures and then promptly mailed them their ears; we created wine and designer shoes and Gossip Girl in an attempt to appease the fairer sex.

men would never need to lie if there where no woman :)

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September 25, 2009 02:52 PM
"I am simple and cool"

If you try to show yourself as complex may be the result will not good.
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September 25, 2009 05:57 PM
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." Oscar Wilde

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September 28, 2009 03:33 PM
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

Joseph Conrad

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