M Quotes
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“Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.”
Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands
“Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.”
Source: Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.”
Source: The Forest House
“Men are by wits not by dicks”
“Men are called to start building their relationship with their feminine spirit in order to reverse the damage that has been caused to the masculine and feminine energy through patriarchy. The only way for us to do this, as men, is to start moving closer to the inner feminine part of our male personality.”
“Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.”
“Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.”
“Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.”
Source: MARRIED LOVERS
“Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.”
“Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.”
“Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.”
“Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family”
“Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.”
“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.”
“Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.”
Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
“Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.”
Source: The Small House at Allington
“Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.”
“Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.”
Source: The Lonely Crowd
“Men are created equal by God but in life, we are not equal and we are never going to be equal”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Men are creatures with eight hands.”
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
Source: Poems
“Men are cursed from enjoying the present moment. The day you experience it, you will either become a yogi or suddenly achieve enlightenment.”
“Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.”
Source: Fire
“Men are dark animals. Women are the same. But if the females wish to survive, they need to mate with the more powerful males. Hence the distinction between slut and stud.”
“Men are destined to love woman, not to expect love but just to love them.”
Source: Karma and Redemption
“Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.”
“Men are destructive in the absence of responsibility”
“Men are devoted to women who are devoted to their sensuality.”
“Men are different; sheep are all alike.”
“Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.”
“Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.”
Source: Jefferson: Writings
“Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.”
Source: Pornography: men possessing women
“Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”
“Men are disturbed, not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”
“Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.”
“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
Source: Discourses on Livy
“Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”
Source: De rerum natura
“Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters
“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.”
“Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.”
“Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.”
“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
“Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.”
Source: A Theologico-Political Treatise
“Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.”
“Men are every bit as gendered as women.”
“Men are evil and they deserve to be unhappy.”
Source: In Limbo
“Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.”