M Quotes
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“Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.”
Source: They Could Not Sleep
“Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.”
“Men are fantastic - as a concept.”
“Men are far more unlikely to stay in an intolerable situation than women. If they do stay in a bad marriage … it means they're getting their satisfaction elsewhere.”
“Men are fascinated by women. Women are fascinated by what they imagine fascinates men about them.”
“Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.”
Source: Call of the Herald
“Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.”
“Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.”
“Men are fools to invest in real estate.”
Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting
“Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.”
“Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.”
“Men are foul, brutish creatures. But they own the world and always will…my brother liked the situation as it was - he had the best of everything without lifting a finger. Mother gave him whatever he wanted. And the selfish pig didn’t mind sacrificing me to keep himself comfortable. He was a man, you see. So I became a whore. And for years I prayed for rescue. But God doesn’t hear the prayers of women. He cares only for those He made in His own image.”
“Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.”
“Men are free to choose whether they wish to live for God or against Him and therefore to opt for heaven or for hell. We must recognize that God has made everything to make man happy, and in accordance with this plan, God asks man to obey the laws that He has established; but God has also given man the ability to refuse this truth. This is the situation in which all of us are placed.”
“Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.”
“Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
“Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.”
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
“Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from?”
Source: I Love You Too
“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, politica. tracts, and lives of eminent persons
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
“Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.”
“Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.”
“Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.”
“Men are good but women are magic.”
“Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”
“Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.”
“Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.”
“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
“Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of that one sick man, and it's up to me and a half-mexican to stop him.”
“Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.”
“Men are idol factories.”
“Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.”
“Men are immortal till their work is done.”
“Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.”
Source: The Analogy of Religion: Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, ... in the Year MDCCLI. By Joseph Butler, ... A New Edition, Corrected. With a Preface, ... by Samuel Halifax, ...
“Men are imposible, but after you've had one around nothing ever has quite the flavor without one. It's terrible, really. When they're there you want to shoot them and when they're not you want to shoot yourself.”
“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.”
“Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.”
Source: The Man of Property
“Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.”
“Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.”
“Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.”
“Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.”
“Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.”