M Quotes
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“Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.”
“Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.”
“Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.”
“Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.”
“Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.”
“Men are separated by so many petty things.”
“Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good. Lead them around by the nose...”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.”
“Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown”
“Men are shit. She has known this since Percy, who took her virginity on the sand dunes at Santa Cruz but never called her back for a third date. Since Jean-Claude, who let her fly from the country she loved and back to the one she hated, without ever thinking to follow. Since Lenny Lynden, who accepted Terra as her replacement as easily as pancakes instead of French toast. For as long as she has been a woman, Evelyn has understood the fundamental indifference of men.”
Source: Beautiful Revolutionary
“Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women.”
“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
“Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.”
Source: Livy
“Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.”
“Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.”
Source: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life; Or, The Autobiography of Goethe
“Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.”
Source: Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year
“Men are so fucking dumb. No wonder they believe they rule the world.”
Source: Wrecking Ball
“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
“Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.”
Source: Pensées
“Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.”
Source: Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
“Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.”
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
Source: Thoughts
“Men are so often made to feel inadequate and stupid for having feelings and problems and expressing their doubts and fears. Fight Club was the pressure cooker that lanced the boil of the pent-up existential crisis in masculinity that continues even more so to this day.”
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”
“Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.”
“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
“Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.”
“Men are so superior about their Latin," said Mrs. Blair. "But all the same I notice that when you ask them to translate inscriptions in old churches, they can never do it! They hem and haw, and get out of it somehow.”
Source: The man in the brown suit
“Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.”
“Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.”
“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.”
“Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.”
Source: Does feminism discriminate against men?
“Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.”
“Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.”
Source: Corelli’s Mandolin
“Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.”
Source: The trial of Jeanne d'Arc
“Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity.”
Source: Poems of John Donne
“Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge”
“Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.”
Source: Poems. The history of a crime
“Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all alike. As long as they find themselves in the middle of it, they say they are sorry that all their time is taken up by politics. But as soon as they have lost and are out - oh, how terrible for them!”
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Source: Freud Verbatim
“Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.”
“Men are stronger physically and mentally than women, and men have achieved great things for humanity, but men must limit their ego, and show greater respect towards women, and help women so as all together to help humanity progress.”
“Men are struggling to find purpose in society because they’re being edged out of it.”
“Men are stupid, and a lot of them need to be told things on top of being shown.”
Source: In Limbo
“Men are stupid. That much I know for sure. They say stupid things. They do stupid things. They hurt you for stupid reasons. But we love them all the same. My fiancee can be as stupid as can be at times, but then again so can I. We all can. Lets face it, life and love would be boring if we were all straight laced and smart.”
“Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.”
Source: Poor Richard Day by Day