M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men, at first glance, are like the colourful productive pollinating bees, but without the flowers, women, they are an annoying senseless noise catering to an overindulged queen; their ever-inflated ego. - On Men Without Women”
Source: The Sunrise's Commandment
“Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.”
“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
Source: Idylls of the King
“Men at some time are masters of their fates.”
“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
“Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.”
“Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line whith her standards and requirments, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing.”
“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.”
“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
Source: Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea
“Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
“Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.”
Source: Lodore
“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.”
“Men become friends by a community of pleasures.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).
“Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.”
“Men become old, but they never become good.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.”
“Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!”
“Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.”
“Men behoeft kinderen niet te bezwaren met de volle zwaarte der bittere waarheden, waaraan wij volwassenen ons echter niet onttrekken mogen — maar men mag ze nog minder leeren mooie namen te geven aan wat geen mooien naam verdient.”
Source: Vaderlandsliefde, menschenliefde en opvoeding
“Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.”
Source: No Name
“Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.”
“MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.”
“Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.”
Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
“Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge – how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip – from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man’s face as he listens to himself speak.”
Source: Cryptonomicon
“Men believe that women were nonvolitional beings, bound to their bodies and their instincts. But studies have shown that mothering is learned; is not instinctive. We learn to mother by being mothered, and creatures that are not mothered cannot do it. Taking care creates love, for a baby, a piece of land, an animal. Men devalue this work, attributing it to mere instinct, ignoring the many women who abandon children or raise them cruelly. Taking responsibility is not instinctual in human beings as it is in other mammals. It is a choice.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.”
“Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.”
Source: Ethics
“Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.”
“Men blackmailing you as a woman leads you to trivialise sex and say 'it's not important, what is important is myself as a person, no one owns me because of sex.'”
“Men blamed wolves and beast-like monsters for wicked passions and vicious killings, but the cruelty of their own hearts ran far deeper than a common beast's actions ever could.”
Source: Hunting Red, Part I
“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.”
“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
[Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]”
“Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.”
“Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?”
Source: Wild Magic
“Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Men build society and society builds men.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.”
“Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.”
“Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it,
For that your self ye daily such doe see:
But the trew fayre, that is the gentle wit,
And vertuous mind, is much more praysd of me.
For all the rest, how ever fayre it be,
Shall turne to nought and loose that glorious hew:
But onely that is permanent and free
From frayle corruption, that doth flesh ensew.
That is true beautie: that doth argue you
To be divine and borne of heavenly seed:
Deriv'd from that fayre Spirit, from whom al true
And perfect beauty did at first proceed.
He onely fayre, and what he fayre hath made,
All other fayre lyke flowres untymely fade.”
Source: Amoretti And Epithalamion
“Men came to think that socialism was a switch that transformed the poverty-stricken into the wealthy, but in truth, socialism is the vehicle by which the State equalizes poverty amongst its citizens.”
Source: The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America
“Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.”
“Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.”
“Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.”
“Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.”