M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.”
“Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.”
Source: Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story
“Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.”
“Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine”
Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Men and women, women and men. It will never work.”
“Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“Men appeared to go along with this idea but it was noticeable that, whenever pansies were in bloom, they couldn't resist doing a little window shopping. They must never admit to themselves or to God or to one another that they even liked the company of homosexuals—let alone that 'trade' with them was a pleasurable pastime. Any attention that they paid to us had to be put in the form of an infliction. Such gestures as running their fingers through our hair were accompanied by insults about what a bloody awful mop it was. If they wished to make any more definitely sexual advances, these must be ruthlessly stripped of any quality of indulgence. I have known at least one heterosexual man who told me that, to be really satisfactory, all sexual intercourse must preserve the illusion of rape, so I was never able to decide how much of the inordinate interest taken in me by the Clerkenwell boys was due to sexual curiosity and how much was what it seemed—hatred.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant
“Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.”
“Men are a compilation of every experience and relationship they have ever lived through. Some experiences have bettered your man while others have battered him. The man standing before you is the result of a lifetime of surviving.”
Source: Messed Up Men of the Bible
“Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.”
“Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.”
“Men are a luxury, not a necessity.”
“Men are a simple life form. Where women go wrong is forgetting that.”
Source: Detour Allure
“Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.”
“Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'”
“Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.”
Source: The social criticism of Stephen Leacock
“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”
Source: Language and Silence
“Men are actually the weaker sex.”
“Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.”
Source: The Portable William Blake
“Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Men are afraid of mermaids. They want to be near mermaids, but, they're afraid of them. Because a man needs to swim with a mermaid while a boat feels safer. Lots of men want to stay in a boat because they're afraid of drowning. But a mermaid knows: life is just not worth living if you're not ready to drown a few times.”
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
“Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.”
Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
“Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Men are all alike. Grown-up children.”
Source: The Keeper: A Novel
“Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.”
Source: My çntonia
“Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.”
Source: My çntonia
“Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.”
“Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.”
“Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.”
Source: The Fortune Hunter
“Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.”
“Men are allowed to get older and women are not.”
“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”
“Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women”
“Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.”
Source: The Prince
“Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel. Then they suddenly stop all communication with you and vanish. All you can do is wait. I wish men came with instruction manual.”
Source: The One You Cannot Have
“Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.”
Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume
“Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.”
“Men are always looking for what's better and women are just looking for what works.”
“Men are always lost, they are confused and afraid, thus they are more trouble than they're worth.”
Source: Open Me
“Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.”
Source: On War
“Men are always much more dignified than most women.”
“Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.”
Source: The Seven That Were Hanged
“Men are always on the side of power. Even the Dark Fairy had to learn that. They will always betray us for power, so why shouldn't we do the same? If only it didn't make our hearts so cold.”
Source: The Golden Yarn
“Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.”
“Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.”
Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies