M Quotes
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“Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion around gender norms that's only going to accelerate.”
“Men are loyal when you lead from the front.”
“Men are mad and gods are madder.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.”
Source: The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality
“Men are made by books.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.”
“Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.”
“Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.”
“Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.”
Source: The Red Planet (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.”
Source: Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867
“Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.”
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.”
Source: The fall
“Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.”
“Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.”
Source: Ethics
“Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.”
“Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.”
“Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.”
“Men are more concerned with keeping unmarried women pure than keeping married women happy.”
Source: Delicious Death
“Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.”
Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.”
Source: The works of John Ruskin
“Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.”
“Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.”
“Men are more inclined to feel sorry for you whilst you're suffering than to rejoice over your accomplishments.”
“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.”
“Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.”
“Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.”
“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”
“Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.”
“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
“Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
“Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.”
“Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Men are more visual by nature and rarely listen to conversation they find boring. Their minds drift and they focus on something else, usually what they’re seeing. They learn to
simply respond in a way that seems appropriate to tonal changes.
Women pay more attention to conversation.
Communication is more important to them, so—while men will be satisfied with a vague memory of my blathering on with some boring subject—women would fret over not recalling what it was about. It’s easier to approach them face to face and embrace them as you bite, then give them the vague
memory of a passionate moment.”
Source: A Bite to Remember
“Men are more visual creatures and rate women based on looks. We like to laugh and be shown a good time. I've never rated anyone on looks.”
“Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.”
“Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.”
Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters
“Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.”
“Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.”