M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.”
“Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book
“Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.”
“Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.”
“Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin' old tore-up clothes.”
Source: How Long 'til Black Future Month?
“Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.”
“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.”
“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.”
“Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered in the mouth of the reader.”
“Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.”
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
“Man plan his course but the Maker define his path.”
“Man plans, and god laughs. Like the ant and the grasshopper.”
“Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.”
Source: Man and His Symbols
“Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is
unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.”
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
“Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.”
Source: Day: A Novel
“Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.”
“Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“Man proposes, and God disposes.”
“Man proposes, but God blocks the game.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Man proposes, but God disposes.”
“Man proposes, but God disposes.
[Lat., Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit.]”
“Man proposes, God disposes.”
“Man proposes, woman forecloses.”
“Man Proposeth, God disposeth.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. George Hebert
“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”
“Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.”
Source: The Life that Really is
“Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.”
Source: Wegman's world: 5 December 1982 to 16 January 1983, Walker Art Center
“Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog.”
“Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90”
“Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ; by his moral nature - that is, he acts upon it, thinks about it, and feels toward it.”
Source: Man's Moral Nature: An Essay
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
“Man realisiert erst, wie klein man eigentlich ist, wenn man mit so etwas konfrontiert wird. Wir leben unser Leben, als stünden wir im Zentrum des Universums, aber wir sind nur winzige Stücke eines zerbrochenen Ganzen. Hier stand ich nun und machte mir Sorgen, wie ich das Leben nach dem College überleben sollte. Gott, es schien nicht einmal mehr richtig, hier von "Überleben" zu sprechen - nicht vor dieser Gedenkstätte an all die Menschen, die nicht überlebt hatten. Ich strich mir mit den Fingern durchs Haar und schlang sie hinter meinem Nacken ineinander.
Ich wusste, dass ich Glück hatte. Dass ich regelrecht gesegnet war. Aber es war auch eine Menge Druck da.. mich zu bemühen, nicht zu vergeuden, was mir geschenkt worden war. Ich wollte etwas erreichen. Etwas lieben. Etwas sein. Aber ich wusste nicht, wie. Ich wusste nicht, was.”
Source: Finding It
“Man really is stupid, phenomenally stupid. That is, he's by no means stupid, but rather he's so ungrateful that it would be hard to find the likes of him.”
“Man reasons, God decides.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.”
“Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.”
Source: The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude
“Man rejection of the Truth is the root of his rebellion.”
“Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.”
“Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Man, resolved to follow the dictates of his depraved inclination, and not to bound his pursuits and enjoyments by the limits of God's holy law, catches at any thing to soften the horrible thought of eternal misery. This is the awakening reflection, God's sword in the conscience, which it is Satan's business, by all his diabolical artifices, to endeavour to sheath, blunt, or turn aside; knowing that while this alarming apprehension is present to the soul, he can never maintain possession of it in peace. By such inventions therefore as these, he takes care to furnish the sinner with that which he seeks, and to enable him to walk according to the course of this wicked world, and the desires of his depraved nature, without being disturbed by such dreadful thoughts.”
Source: The Force of Truth
“Man, Rhage is playin’ with fire,” Butch said as he started to rack up the balls.
“I give Fritz thirty seconds before he’s—Here he comes.”
“I’m going to pretend I’m not here.”
V took a swig of his Goose. “Me too.”
While they got busy grabbing balls, Fritz came steaming across the foyer like a missile seeking a heat source.
“Watch your ass, Hollywood, true?” V muttered as Rhage came over with a basket of popped-and-fluffy.
“It’s good for him. He needs the exercise—Fritz! How are you, buddy?”
-Butch, Vishous, & Rhage”
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Man rushed in to embrace technology. Unfortunately for him, he didn't think about the consequences of playing god.”
“Man's beliefs are so powerful, so strong; take them away and he is suddenly nothing.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“Man's best-directed effort accomplishes a kind of dream, while God is the sole worker of realities.”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“Man's body was designed to function best with high blood and cellular levels of vitamin C - synthesised as needed by the liver. Due to an inborn error of metabolism, the vast majority of us no longer have the ability to make it, but that does not lessen our need for vitamin C or the benefits derived form it.”
Source: Primal Panacea
“Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try." -- Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.”