M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.”
“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.”
“Men always makes gods in their own image.”
“Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.”
“Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
“Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?”
“Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.”
“Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments.”
Source: Oceans of Fire
“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.”
“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.”
“Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.”
Source: Minority Report
“Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.”
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Source: Epigrams & Aphorisms
“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.”
“Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.”
Source: Killbox
“Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I know you all think it sounds brave, but I’ll tell you something even braver. To struggle and fight for the ones you love today. And then do it all over again the next day. Every day. For your whole life. It’s not as romantic, I admit. But it takes a lot of courage to live for someone, too.”
“Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.”
“Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”
“Men and boys always want to fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.”
Source: Because of Winn-Dixie
“Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.”
“Men and boys are constantly portrayed as predatory, sexist, their sense of humour is vilified and their behaviour is regarded as unacceptable. Factor in the constant diet we are fed of men as perpetrators of rape, murder and domestic violence. Boys must wonder whether they will ever be able to do anything right. This must make it painfully difficult for young men and women to build up relations based on honesty, love and trust.”
“Men and boys should be capable of beautiful things.”
Source: Tin Man
“Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.”
“Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.”
“Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.”
Source: On Liberty
“Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
Source: Great Contemporaries
“Men and Melons are hard to know.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.”
“Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4
“Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…
“Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.”
“Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser”
Source: The Religion
“Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.”
“Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.”
Source: Magic Bites
“Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.”
Source: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
“Men and their cursed arrogance. You curse, you shit, you wail, you beat women. But all you really do is take up space. As men always do, they cannot help themselves.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.”
Source: Walk on Earth a Stranger
“Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.”
“Men and times change-but principles-never.”
“Men and water shouldn’t stay at the same place for long.”
Source: That Thing About You
“Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”
“Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter something much more malleable than your flesh, like your priorities, or your friends.”
“Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.”
“Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.”
Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings
“Men and women are but children of a larger growth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.”
“Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.”
“Men and women are from different zip codes. All guys understand - well this is just my opinion - you guys don't understand with words. You guys understand with actions.”