M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men don’t realize that if we’re sleeping with them on the first date, we’re probably not interested in seeing them again either.”
“Men Dover, har du börjat tycka om mitt sällskap?”
Source: Equidae
“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions”
“Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.”
Source: Four to Score
“Men då sa Jonatan att det fanns saker som man måste göra, även om det var farligt. ’Varför då’, undrade jag. ’Annars är man ingen människa utan bara en liten lort’, sa Jonatan.”
Source: The Brothers Lionheart
“Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.”
“Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.”
“Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.”
Source: Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy
“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
Source: Dialogues satiriques philosophiques: suivis du sermon des cinquante
“Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.”
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
“Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.”
“Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.”
Source: The Seed and the Flower
“Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Men enjoy the happiness they feel. We can only enjoy the happiness we give.”
Source: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
“Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.”
“Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.”
Source: No exit, and three other plays
“Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.”
“Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.”
“Men, especially crude men, tend to keep their promises.”
Source: In Limbo
“Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.”
“Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.”
“Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card.”
“Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.”
“Men exist for the sake of 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 exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.”
“Men expect a return on what they give, while God returns any such expectations on what He gives.”
“Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.”
Source: The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith
“Men expect too much, do too little,
Put the contraption before the accomplishment,
Lack skill of the interior mind
To fashion dignity with shapes of air.
Luxury, yes but not elegance!”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Men expect too much, do too little.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”
Source: Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc
“Men fake sleep the way women fake orgasms: to be left alone already.”
Source: If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?
“Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.”
“Men fall in love through their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears, through words.”
“Men fall in love with loyalty and respect, while women fall in love with security and they are only loyal to their emotions”
Source: Nothing But The Truth...
“Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.”
“Men fall in private long before they fall in public.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“Men fall over themselves for a beautiful woman, women fall over themselves for a rich man. So who's the more greedy? At least money is useful. And it doesn't fade with time.”
“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain,
Treat those of common parts with proud disdain;
The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide,
They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride;
While yet but mere probationers for fame,
They seize the honor they should then disclaim:
Honor so hurried to the light must fade,
The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume
“Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.”
Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
“Men fear being used; women fear being used up.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
“Men fear most what they cannot see.”
“Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.”
“Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.”
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.”
Source: Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
Source: Why Men Fight
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth
-- more than ruin
-- more even than death....
Thought is subversive and revolutionary,
destructive and terrible,
thought is merciless to privilege,
established institutions,
and comfortable habit.
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.
Thought is great and swift and free,
the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
Source: Quotable Bertrand Russell