M Quotes
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“Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.”
“Men da tokayeren stod næsten urørt i glassene fik fru Julie champagne og frukt ind, druer, epler, fikener. Nei du store verden! Tænkte vel alle, og verten kunde endelig merke en snev av himelfaldenhet.”
Source: Men livet lever
“Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“Men date. Women have relationships.”
“Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.”
“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”
Source: Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes
“Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization
“men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.”
“Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.”
“Men dersom Nordfarernes Troe var saa stoer,
De kunde faa Bergen henfløttet i Noer,
Ved ongefahr hundrede Miile;
Hvor skulle den ganske Nordlendingens Tract,
Af inderste Hierte sig fryde med Magt,
Med lystige Ansigter smiile.”
Source: The Trumpet of Nordland
“Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Source: Pensées
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.”
Source: Pensées
“Men, despite all their ethics, would never be anything more than monsters if nature had not given them pity to bolster their reason.”
Source: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
“Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.”
“Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.”
Source: Rapture
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.”
“Men didn't have any idea about regret
before God felt so once after created us.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Men didn't live as long as women. She didn't know why, but figured it had something to do with how they poked at the world, never reading directions or asking for help, testing everything around them.”
Source: Bernice Runs Away
“Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women were allowed to become secretaries. That's the way they entered the work force. Then we began to educate them because they had to be educated. But it wasn't until after World War II that most of the great universities of this country became coeducational.”
“Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.”
“Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.”
Source: American Salvage: Stories
“Men die and they are not happy.”
Source: Caligula and Three Other Plays
“Men die but an idea does not.”
“Men die but sorrow never dies.”
“Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.”
Source: The Red Queen
“Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.”
“Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”
Source: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
“Men die several times in life. The time to lose the first lover. After getting married, it is time to lose his wife in old age.”
Source: Maxim Maxim
“Men die the way they lived.”
“Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.”
“Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the young must make love, and the photographer must, I suppose, be ready to photograph it all.”
“Men die. It's practically what they're for.”
“Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.”
Source: In the Hand of the Goddess
“Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Men, discouraged by their failure to accomplish exactly what they desire, often speak of their lives as purposeless, but it is idle talk, for, in fact, no intelligent life which concerns itself vigorously and properly with the things about it can be said to be purposeless. Such a life adheres, automatically, to the law of progression, and therefore moves toward a great destiny of supreme power and accompanying joys. The only purposeless life is the one that does not use its faculties. It matters little what tasks men perform in life, if only they do them well and will all their strength. In the eternal plan they are given progressive value. In an infinite universe, one cannot possibly learn all or do all, at once. A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered. In the end, all must be explored, and whether one begins in the east or the west cannot matter much. The big concern is the extent to which a man offers himself, mind and body, to his worthwhile work. Upon that will growth depend.”
Source: Rational Theology
“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”
“Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.”
“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”
Source: Sweet Thursday
“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?”
Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962
“Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.”
“Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.”
“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”
Source: Short Century
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.”
“Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true”
“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”