M Quotes
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“Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.”
Source: Walk on Earth a Stranger
“Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known”
Source: The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café
“Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.”
“Men can bear all things but good days.”
“Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit like a spider, for years, waiting for the chance to strike. They never forget and seldom forgive.”
Source: Infamous: Chronicles of Nick
“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.”
Source: The Portable Graham Greene
“Men can choose how they treat us and this is the world they choose.
Frankly, not being angry would be irrational. Feminism is the collective manifestation of female anger.
Men suppress our anger for a reason. Let's prove them right.”
Source: The Witches Are Coming
“Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.”
“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Men can do that, become more handsome as they grow older. Women just age.”
Source: Fates and Furies
“Men can get jobs from one country to another, they can get in. But the people who always fell through the cracks were women and children, especially when you are displaced. I've always said, 'I am the face of a refugee.'”
“Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.”
Source: The New Land
“Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.”
“Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.”
“Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.”
“Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.”
Source: Collected essays
“Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.”
“Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.”
“Men can love a tree, a cottage, a stream ; Flavian loved Avalon as being the temple of the unutterable memories of the past.”
Source: Love Among the Ruins
“Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.”
“men can not hide their own secrets, women can not hide the secrets of the others”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.”
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
Source: Critical Essays
“Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.”
Source: The Home and the World
“Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.”
“Men can see the greatest miracles and miss the glory of God. What generation was ever favored with miracles as Jesus' generations was? Yet that generation crucified the Son of God!”
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
Source: Native Son
“Men can't all think alike, and the trouble with the Southern people always has been that they won't tolerate any difference of opinion. If God Almighty had intended all men to think just alike, He might just as well have made but one man....My opinion is that the only true solution for Southern troubles is for the people to accept cordially and in good faith all the results of the war, including the reconstruction measures, the acts of Congress, negro suffrage, etc., and live up to them like men. If they would do this, and encourage Northern immigration, and treat all men fairly, whites and blacks, the troubles would soon be over, and in less than five years, the South would be in the enjoyment of greater prosperity than ever. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Interview with correspondent from the Indianapolis Journal, September 24, 1874.”
Source: Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
“Men can't help in a job, you know. They can be induced to do it: not to help while you're doing it. At least, it makes them grumpy.”
“Men can't read minds, you know. If you want something done, ask him. You never ask. You only expect. Also, when you want something done, you expect it right away in your perfect timing. You need to learn to be more patient. You are only focusing on what he isn't. You need to focus on what he is.”
Source: A Beautiful Mind, A Beautiful Life: The Bubz Guide to Being Unstoppable
“Men can tell feminist stories. Feminism is a politico-social movement and every piece of work happens to be a series of ideologies; subjectively political.”
“Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.”
“Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.”
“men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.”
“Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“Men cannot be our enemies--even men called "Vietcong"!
If we kill men, what brothers will we have left?
With whom shall we live then?”
“Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.”
“Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.”
Source: Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
“Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change.”
Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.”
Source: Last Operas and Plays
“Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.”
Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible: Isaiah to Malachi
“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
“Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes