M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.”
Source: Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus
“Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.”
“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”
Source: My Story
“Men are always seen as having more to offer the world.”
Source: I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan
“Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.”
“Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.”
“Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.”
“Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.”
“Men are among the loneliest creatures. They lose their mothers and cannot carry children, and have nothing to comfort themselves with but their vestigial cockular appendages. This is perhaps the reason they move ever warward when they are not moving fuckward.”
“Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.”
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.”
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.”
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
“Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality”
Source: Essential works
“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”
“Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.”
“Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.”
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.”
“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.”
“Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.”
Source: Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
“Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.”
“Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.”
Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant
“men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Men are attracted to me because of my personality!”
“Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.”
Source: Die Hochstaplerin
“Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.”
“Men are beastly and natural, and when touched by God, the One who is supernatural, they become as 'mythical creatures' - only more true and just, and therefore all the meeker.”
“Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.”
“Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!”
“Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.”
“Men are better watching the seasons, and putting good into the earth, than running together in cities, where they listen all day to each other's noises and forgot the gods. Acharnai is quite far enough.”
Source: The Last of the Wine
“Men are born equal but they are also born different.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them”
Source: The Meditations
“Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”
“Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.”
Source: The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
“Men are born with nothing with which to buy. Women are born with something to sell.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Men are born, and then they're formed.”
“Men are boys in bigger packages.”
“Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.”
“Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.”
Source: Best Served Cold
“Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.”
“Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.”
“Men are but children of a larger growth.”