M Quotes
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“Men have used her meanly. She will eat them.”
Source: Winter Trees
“Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.”
“Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.”
“Men haven't changed: they love the thrill of the chase, and if you hand yourself over on a plate they'll lose interest.”
Source: Mr. Maybe
“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.”
“Men hear loud voices, but they listen to strong words.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Men heeft Wijsgeeren gehad, welken men dien naam toevoegde, om eenige zonderlinge grilligheeden, tot welken te pleegen hunne natuurgenooten niet besluiten konden. Een ongehavende baard, gescheurde klederen, onvoegzaame wooningen, zotte en strenge zeden, onhandelbaarheid in de zaamenleeving, en dergelijken waren de kenmerken hunner wijsgeerlijke waardigheid, en - tot schande der eeuwen, in welken zij leefden, - moet men zeggen, dat de volken veelal zelve de oorzaaken deezer belachlijke en afschuwelijke wanschepzels waren; vermits zij hen den naam van Wijsgeeren toekenden, en ze als de zodanigen eere beweezen.”
Source: Mijne vrolijke wijsgeerte in mijne ballingschap
“Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.”
Source: The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy
“Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
“Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.”
“Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ...crushed humans, Readers choice of relevant quotes about MK Gandhi and Satyagraha.”
“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.”
“men i swear." -jacky faber”
“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”
Source: The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
“Men: "I was wrong. I'm sorry"
Women: (Shit! What else can I fight with him about?)”
“Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.”
“Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.”
Source: Mystic River
“Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.”
“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life”
Source: Cities of the Plain
“Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian (Annotated Edition)
“Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”
Source: Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
“Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.”
“Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.”
“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.”
Source: MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION
“Men in all ways are better than they seem.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.”
“Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.”
“Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.”
“Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.”
“Men in flannel shirts all look the same. Strike that. Some are boring and ugly. This one here though, isn’t just plain handsome, but he looks uber-beautiful, even with that corny hat pulled low.”
“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.”
“Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will find that they come under four headings: love, money, adventure and religion. It is to some of them that we always owe that big urge which pushes us onward. Men who crush these impulses and settle down to everyday routine are bound to sink into mediocrity. No man is a complete unit of himself; he needs the contact, the stimulus and the driving power which is generated by his contact with other men, their ideas, and constantly changing scenes.”
“Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.”
Source: Politics
“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”
“Men in general, the sisters concluded, were gullible but not to be trusted, greedy but frivolous with money, predatory but easily trapped.”
Source: Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
“Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.”
“Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.”
Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political
“Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.”
“Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon
“Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.”
“Men in high levels of government seldom surf.”
“Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not even a man anymore, and they get kind of feminized and weird and they have this longing for this animal, brutal part of themselves to come back. Love does something to men.”
“Men in love have always liked to talk; women in love, on the other hand, don't want to talk, because they know, without even knowing that they know, that once a man really understands a woman he'll stop loving her.”
“Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]”
“Men in offices are, for the most part, Deadly Bores. They suffer from indigestion and ask you to buy their pills in your lunch hour. They seldom think of their girl employees as human beings at all. What they would prefer, if they were procurable and didn’t cost too much, would be a series of automatic machines, into which you put the week’s salary and took out the letters at the other end. They would prefer these to young women, because you can kick a machine, if you happen to be put out about something, without being hauled into court for assault.”
Source: Three-a-Penny
“Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.”
“Men in power always seem to get involved in sex scandals, but women don't even have a word for 'male bimbo.' Except maybe 'senator.”