M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men are such babies.”
Source: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.”
“Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.”
“Men are supposed to protect their women from harm and the harsh, evil world. But what is a girl to do when the evil inhabits her own home? When the depraved monster forces her to spread her legs and take him inside like a meek, compliant wife, and beats her when she doesn’t?
She plans a murder, that’s what she does.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.”
“Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.”
Source: Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...
“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”
“Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.”
“Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.”
Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
“Men are taught how to be what a woman wants and women are taught how to be what a man wants, therefore, people end up with people because there is something offered which they want; not because they see the other person, understand the other person, share the other person's dreams... why are not men and women being taught how to show other people their dreams, the colours of their souls, their fears and pains, their joys and laughters? People should be falling in love with people! Not with ideas!”
“Men are taught over and over when they are boys that a wound that hurts is shameful. A wound that stops you from continuing to play is a girlish wound. He who is truly a man keeps walking, dragging his guts behind.
Our story gives a teaching diametrically opposite. It says that where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. Wherever the wound appears in our psyches, whether from alcoholic father, shaming mother, shaming father, abusing mother, whether it stems from isolation, disability, or disease, that is precisely the place for which we will give our major gift to the community.”
Source: Iron John: A Book about Men
“Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”
“Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.”
“Men are terrified of a woman's depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman's sexuality and emotions. And, at the same time, men want nothing more in this life than to merge completely with a woman's devotional love and wild energy. Only as a man outgrows his fear can he handle a woman's tremendous love-energy without running. And only such a man is worthy of your devotional offering in a committed intimacy.”
Source: Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.”
“Men are tested and tried amongst deceptions radically and they are winning for themselves abilities to give, to deliberate, to stand fast, to choose well, to discriminate.”
“They are far from the 'automata' of the Universe some think them to be. They dance the starry path and are sharpening their knowledge with every orbit of each positive thought travelled.”
Source: Azlander: Second Nature
“Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.”
“Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
[Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]”
“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Men are the dreams of a shadow.”
“Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.”
“Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.”
Source: The Rise of Big Business: 1860 - 1920
“Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.”
“Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.”
Source: The Tea Rose
“Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.”
“Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.”
Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
“Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.”
“Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.”
“Men are to be brought to this black business hood-winked. They are to be drawn in by degrees, until they cannot retreat…we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity.”
Source: The Speeches Of John Wilkes ... In The Parliament Appointed To Meet At Westminster The 29. Day Of November 1774, To The Prorogation The 6. Day Of June 1777, Volume 2
“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.”
Source: Selections from Carlyle
“Men are to be reminded of their inner strength and superiority, while women need to be taught how to overcome their inherent, life-stunting limitations.”
Source: Nothing But the Truth
“Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .”
Source: Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
“Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.”
“Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.”
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
“Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.”
“Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.”
“men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success”
Source: Commentary on Isaiah
“Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.”
“Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.”
“Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: From the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799
“Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.”
“Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.”
“Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.”
“Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.”
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is.”
Source: The Limpopo Academy Of Private Detection
“Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.”
“Men are vile creatures, really. using women up, casting them aside. Leaving them along and broken, Better to leave them first, isn't it? Better yet to pay them back, and leave them bleeding,
Sick and tired of being the one left behind, aren't you? And all the fighting, all the death. I can help you with that. I'd so like to help you.”