M Quotes
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“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.”
“Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.”
“Men cannot live forever
But they must die forever.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.”
“Men cannot make good decisions about their lifelong mate when driven by the passions of youth. If Pakal is continuing to see this woman, I will immediately put this to an end." -- Sak K'uk, Queen Mother of Janaab Pakal, Ruler of Palenque.”
Source: The Mayan Red Queen: Tz'aakb'u Ahau of Palenque
“Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.”
“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”
“Men cannot survive without cheating, it is in their nature.”
“Men cannot think like dogs.... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead.”
“Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.”
“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.”
Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives
“Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.”
“Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.”
Source: Pornography: men possessing women
“Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Men cheat because it's in their genetic code. A woman does it because she doesn't have enough dignity; in addition to handing over her body, she always ends up handing a bit of her heart.”
Source: Adultery
“Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.”
“Men choose a religion, but a Christian is chosen by Jesus Christ.”
“Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.”
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”
Source: From the Horse’s Mouth
“Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.”
Source: Politics
“Men come and go but bills are forever.”
“Men come and go. Husbands stay.”
Source: The New Land
“Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”
“Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes”
“Men come in chapters, the women in our lives thread through the whole story.”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.”
“Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; it intensifies their lust and their longing.”
Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life”
“Men come, men go, all things remain in God.”
“Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.”
Source: Public Opinion
“Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.”
“Men conceal no fewer tears under the garb of shallow masculine arrogance than perhaps women do.”
Source: TRANCE : Secret Herb from Kamakhya
“Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.”
“Men concerned with matters of mind often find themselves in better control of space, energy and matter. Men concerned with matter often find themselves in small spaces, devoid of energy, stuck in a cluttered mind.”
“Men concerned with power often get wealth and status in return. Men concerned with wealth and status seem to get lost in the concept.”
“Men conspiring in dark little holes like vermin, chittering their spiteful thoughts to one another, make the world like this, hurt people like that. I hate them I hate them I hate them.”
Source: Hungerstone
“Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.”
“Men control the world, but women control the men.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“Men could be utter pussycats when they had even a touch of the sniffles.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“Men could get anything they wanted from the women who sought refuge with them. Why would they be obliged to marry their women?”
Source: Second Chinese Daughter
“Men crawl in slime and wallow in the mud;
The Realist groans: "All life is mud ans slime!"
Men lie and steal and shed each other's blood;
And Realism sees but blood and crime.
Yet Right is just as real as Wrong,
The mountain peak is real as the ooze,
A curse is no more real than a song;
Among realities we need but choose.
The cynic sees the failure of To-day,
The Prophet cries the triumph of To-morrow,
Knowing the spirit in our clogging clay
That masters doubt, disaster, loss and sorrow.
Failure is but a passing weariness,
There is no final answer but Success.”
“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”
“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.”
“Men create the gods after their own images.”
“Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.”
“Men created things that benefited them and called it culture.”
“Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!”