M Quotes
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“Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.”
“Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your grace by sin; but never, never will I lose my hope in You. I will cherish it unto that dreadful moment when all hell will be unchained to snatch my soul away. "No one has hoped in the Lord and has been confounded"”
“Men may die, but dreams do not die. As long as there is someone to fulfill that dream, it can still be fulfilled even after the dreamer is dead.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.”
“Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.”
“Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”
“Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.”
“Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.”
Source: The Patriot's Daughter
“Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.”
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.”
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]
“Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.”
Source: Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust
“Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.”
“Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.”
Source: Traffic
“Men may perish, but the world will neither celebrate nor mourn. It will go on.' His smile thinned. 'Would you like to know how?'
'No.'
'Animals will swell to fill the void left by men," he told her. 'And over-swell it, perhaps. There will be other extinctions and other recoveries. The sky will clear, but those who see it will not marvel at its many colors. Those ruins will collapse, burying treasures like this-' He waved at the walls. '-and this-' He picked up the spoon from her coffee tray and tossed it down again with a clatter. '-forever, but the world will go on. Years become centuries so easily when no one is there to count them. Centuries become millennia. The forests will reclaim the lands that Men have razed. Rivers will carve canyons across the scars left by this fallen cities. Mountains will rise up, trapping seas to dry under and uncaring sun and leaving the bones of whales to bleach in the newborn deserts for no one to find, no one to be inspired by thoughts of giants and dragons. And still the worlds will go on, and I will go on with it through ages that can only be measured by the coming and going of glaciers. The stars themselves will shift in the heavens and no one will be there to invent names for their new alignments or remember the stories of the old ones, no one but me. In time, the sun itself will begin to cool. Here on Earth, the world goes on and on as its remaining life passes through its last changes and dies away. It will be quiet. And lonely.' His mouth curved into a bitter line. 'But I'll live.'
'Stop it,' Lan whispered through numb lips.
'I read once that the sun will someday swell and engulf this world before it burns itself out. Perhaps I will finally die with it. Or perhaps I' will continue to endure... my ashes pulled eternally apart through the frozen vacuum of space, and I with no more mouth to scream... still alive.”
Source: Land of the Beautiful Dead
“Men may profess their yearning to find a modest and sensible girl to marry. But none of you can resist chasing after a golden-haired flirt with a well-endowed figure, all dimples and giggles- without giving a passing thought to how empty-headed she might be."
"Guilty as charged," one of the men admitted, and they all chuckled.
"She's not empty-headed," Tom said, unable to keep silent.
Adelia gave him a piercing glance, her smile firmly fixed. "I forgot- you're acquainted with the family. Don't say Lady Cassandra is a secret intellectual? An unacknowledged genius of our modern times?"
Another round of chuckles, this time more subdued.
"She's highly intelligent," Tom replied coolly, "and quick-witted. She's also extraordinarily kind. I've never heard her speak ill of anyone."
Adelia flushed at the subtle rebuke.”
Source: Chasing Cassandra
“Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.”
“Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.”
Source: The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems
“Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.”
“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.”
Source: Moby Dick
“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.”
“Men may tag you names and titles, some may fit others may not, but never accept anyone's definition of who you are and should be; you decide!”
“Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.”
“Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.”
Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition
“Men meet; mountains, never.”
“Men – merchants, kings – from far and wide have made this city their home. Someday, they will call our land Kashmir, theirs, Gopal and I often joke.”
Source: Game of Big Numbers
“Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.”
Source: The Poetical works
“Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.”
Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin
“Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.”
“Men might be better if we better deemed of them.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Men might be chastised for being promiscuous, but I think they're more likely to be given a pass, due to a "men will be men" attitude that still prevails in the Western world. They don't usually experience anything like the virulent shaming and verbal abuse that women who are sexually adventurous are sometimes prone to experiencing.”
“Men might hunt on horses, but ladies shot game while sitting in chairs around the dining table.”
Source: Delicious Death
“Men might need to work less on their biceps and more on their intuition.”
Source: The Descent of Man
“Men!" Min muttered at the door. "Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”
“Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.”
“Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.”
Source: The Other Side of Midnight
“men monopolizes the most desirable mates. Since accumulating wealth and status takes time and work for most men, the norm of polygamy pushes up the age of marriage for males, drives down the age of marriage for females, removes incentives for female educational and economic attainment, and increases the fertility rate. The surplus of unmarried males scrambling for an artificially reduced pool of marriageable females spurs the growth of crime and violence.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.”
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.”
“Men most often know what they want, yet they are not always sure how they feel. Women most often know how they feel, yet they may not always know what they want.”
Source: Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
“Men mostly just seem to worry about other penises without realizing that it’s women’s hearts that run away with them.”
Source: The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon
“Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.”
“Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.”
Source: Natural Right and History
“Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self.
Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and
consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.”
“Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)