M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.”
“Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.”
“Man vergaß die Toten. Man vergaß ihre Stimmen, und man vergaß ihre Gesichter. Auch wenn man das Gefühl für sie nie ganz verlor, war es schrecklich, irgendwann aufzuwachen und nicht mehr ganz sicher zu sein, wie die verstorbene Person einmal ausgesehen hatte. Sie wusste das nur zu gut.”
Source: Im Nordwind
“Man verstand erst, was Hunger bedeutete, wenn er bereits da war, wenn er einen von innen auffraß. Genauso wie man erst verstand, was Einsamkeit bedeutete, wenn niemand, aber auch wirklich niemand mehr da war.”
“Man versus woman equals fun. Man versus man equals gay. Woman versus woman equals awesome. Man versus pillow equals crazy. Pillow versus pillow equals crazy awesome - that's a real pillow fight right there. You see two pillows fighting, you know something's going down. They're designed for relaxation. If they're fighting, what hope do we have? One time I saw two geese fighting, and I was like, 'This is a pillow fight ahead of time.”
“Man verändert sich jeden Tag", sagte sie. "Wenn man es nicht täte, dann befände man sich im Stillstand. Und der tritt erst mit dem Tod ein.”
Source: Wanderherzen
“Man vill bli älskad, i brist därpå beundrad, i brist därpå fruktad, i brist därpå avskydd och föraktad. Man vill ingiva människorna något slags känsla. Själen ryser för tomrummet och vill kontakt till vad pris som helst.”
“Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.”
Source: Souls on Fire
“Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Man wants a home and so, too, do all the animals.”
“Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.”
Source: POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY
“Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.”
“Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Man wants little, nor that little long.”
“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”
“Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.”
Source: Sermons
“Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.”
“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.”
“Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.”
“Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.”
Source: Penny Wise & Book Foolish
“Man was a miniature solar system, a microcosm of the universe. Understand man and you understand the Earth and the universe.”
Source: Earth Medicine: Revealing Hidden Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
“Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.”
“Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.”
Source: Strange Science Fantasy
“Man was born for love and revolution.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of Mankind, the Misanthrope flies from it: He resolves to become an Hermit, and buries himself in the Cavern of some gloomy Rock. While Hate inflames his bosom, possibly He may feel contented with his situation: But when his passions begin to cool; when Time has mellowed his sorrows, and healed those wounds which He bore with him to his solitude, think you that Content becomes his Companion? Ah! no, Rosario. No longer sustained by the violence of his passions, He feels all the monotony of his way of living, and his heart becomes the prey of Ennui and weariness. He looks round, and finds himself alone in the Universe: The love of society revives in his bosom, and He pants to return to that world which He has abandoned. Nature loses all her charms in his eyes: No one is near him to point out her beauties, or share in his admiration of her excellence and variety. Propped upon the fragment of some Rock, He gazes upon the tumbling waterfall with a vacant eye, He views without emotion the glory of the setting Sun. Slowly He returns to his Cell at Evening, for no one there is anxious for his arrival; He has no comfort in his solitary unsavoury meal: He throws himself upon his couch of Moss despondent and dissatisfied, and wakes only to pass a day as joyless, as monotonous as the former.”
Source: The Monk
“Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.”
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”
“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.”
“Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“Man was created by God to fulfill God’s will”
“Man was created to complete the horse.”
“Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.”
Source: Killosophy
“Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”
“Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.”
Source: Killosophy
“Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.”
“Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.”
Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language itself is a continuously imaginative act. Rational discourse outside our familiar territory of Greek logic sounds to our ears like the wildest imagination. The Dogon, a people of West Africa, will tell you that a white fox named Ogo frequently weaves himself a hat of string bean hulls, puts it on his impudent head, and dances in the okra to insult and infuriate God Almighty, and that there's nothing we can do about it except abide him in faith and patience.
This is not folklore, or quaint custom, but as serious a matter to the Dogon as a filling station to us Americans. The imagination; that is, the way we shape and use the world, indeed the way we see the world, has geographical boundaries like islands, continents, and countries. These boundaries can be crossed. That Dogon fox and his impudent dance came to live with us, but in a different body, and to serve a different mode of the imagination. We call him Brer Rabbit.”
Source: The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
“Man was formed for society.”
“Man was formed of the dust of the earth, and the animals were made from the ground. There are two elements to man today. The spiritual man, or the soul man, as we know him, is made from dust, and he is dwelling in a house made from the ground, which is, for all intents and purposes, an animal body. We are dwelling in an animal body, and we have the animal nature which has taken on the flesh.”
Source: Evil Children
“Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.”
“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
“Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.”
“Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.”
Source: The Ascent to Truth