M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.”
“Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.”
“Men hate more steadily than they love.”
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 hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.”
“Men hate those to whom they have to lie.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.”
Source: The Paliser case
“Men hate to lose. I once beat my husband at tennis. I asked him, "Are we going to have sex again?" He said, "Yes, but not with each other."”
“Men hatifnattar slåss aldrig, lika lite som de säger emot en eller tycker illa om en eller tycker nånting alls, överhuvudtaget.
De kom fram för att buga en efter en, i hundratal, och pappan tog hatten av sig och bugade tills han fick ont i huvudet och undratals tassar viftade tills pappan också började vifta med tassarna av ren trötthet.
När den sista hatifnatten gått förbi hade mumintrollets pappa helt och hållet glömt att han haft lust att slåss. Han var bara artig och utslätad och följde efter genom det viskande gräset med hatten i tassen.”
Source: Det osynliga barnet
“Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.”
“Men have a mission to win; women have a passion to love.”
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”
“Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.”
Source: Jacob Riis revisited: poverty and the slum in another era
“Men have all the luck. Girl pockets are like the size of a pack of Tic Tacs. Meanwhile, you could hide a dictionary in here.”
Source: Promise Me Sunshine
“Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system”
Source: Huxley and God: essays
“Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.”
“Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.”
Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
“Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason.”
Source: Maeve Fly
“Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.”
Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN
“Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3
“Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.”
Source: Conversations with Erica Jong
“Men have always fought their misery with dreams. Although dreams were once powerful, they have been made puerile by the movies, radio and newspapers. Among many betrayals, this is the worst.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts
“Men have always hated the wolf."
"Why?" said the boy indignantly, suddenly looking very unhappy indeed.
"Maybe because they see something in the wolf that they hate and fear in themselves. Maybe because wolves take their sheep and goats, as if we shouldn't all share life's bounty.”
Source: The Sight
“Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.”
“Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.”
“Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!”
“Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.”
“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.”
“Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.”
“Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.”
“Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.”
“Men have been allowed to fail and keep playing forever. Why do we let failure take us out of the game? Imperfect men have been empowered and permitted to run the world since the beginning of time. It's time for imperfect women to grant themselves permission to join them.”
Source: Wolfpack
“Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”
Source: The Public Philosophy
“Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.”
“men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.”
“Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways, men are still in the forefront. There is a lot of room for composers of all types of music by both men and women, nowadays.”
“Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.”
“Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.”
Source: Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
“Men have been packaged by society so well as elusive and mysterious that if you score one for yourself, you are suddenly deemed worthy of respect. This form of advertising has aided men for years, with women placing their best foot forward to present themselves to be found worthy of a man’s approval.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.”
Source: The Manipulated Man
“Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.”
“Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasure. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut