M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.”
“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”
“Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.”
“Men do not die on mornings like this:
whatever happens then happens in their name,
like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory.”
Source: Winter Solstice
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
“Men DO NOT emotionally process love anything close to the way that women process love.
When expressing your sincere devotion and love for a man---the best way to say it, is to put on G-string panties, and then SHOW HIM with a swallow.”
Source: Men Only Want Sex and Their Freedom™
“Men do not fail; they give up trying.”
“Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.”
“Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.”
“Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.”
“Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.”
“Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.”
“Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.”
Source: Claude Levi-Strauss
“Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.”
“Men do not know how much they are capable of doing till they try”
“Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.”
“Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.”
“Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.”
Source: Love Invents Us
“Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.”
Source: Novels and Social Writings
“Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.”
“Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.”
Source: Making Waves: Essays
“Men do not look to my legs, no more.”
“Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
“Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.”
“Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.”
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”
“Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.”
“Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the overlapping shields, the helmets, the glint of axes and spears and swords, and you know you must go into the reach of those blades, into the place of death, and it takes time to summon the courage, to heat the blood, to let the madness overtake caution.”
Source: Death of Kings
“Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.”
Source: History of Greece
“Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And we cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining but must scheme to extend it, for, if we cease to rule others, we are in danger of being ruled ourselves. Nor can you look at inaction from the same point of view as others, unless you are prepared to change your habits and make them like theirs.”
“Men do not settle down. Men surrender.”
“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”
“Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.”
“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.”
“men do not suspect faults which they do not commit”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.”
“Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.”
Source: The Crossing
“Men do not value a good deed
unless it brings a reward.”
“Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.”
Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings
“Men do pay attention when a woman speaks their mother language.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Men do suck.”
Source: Summer and the City
“Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.”
“Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.”
“Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman”
“Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.”
“Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.”
Source: The Midnight Mayor
“Men don't cry.
So I destroyed my liver
drowned my grief in bottles,
watching the glass empty
like my soul,
sip by bitter sip.
Men don't cry.
So I destroyed my lungs,
turned them into chimneys,
letting smoke carry the weight
of what I couldn't say.
Men don't cry.
We were told to hold it in, to be
strong to bear it quietly,
So we found other ways
to bleed
other ways to break,
because even when it hurt,
tears were never an Option.”