M Quotes
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“Men never believe a woman can do anything.”
Source: House of All Nations
“Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.”
Source: Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner
“Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.”
“Men never fail to underestimate women.”
“Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.”
Source: Frog Music
“Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.”
Source: The New Land
“Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.”
“Men never hesitated to declare their presence. They were permitted to live aloud, in reverberating thuds and clunks, while ladies were always schooled to abide in hushed whispers.”
“Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.”
Source: Emma
“Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful”
“Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.”
“Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.”
Source: The Letters of Queen Victoria
“Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.”
“Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.”
“Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.”
“Men när i gryningen sken den rosenfingrade Eos [...]”
Source: The Iliad
“Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
“Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.”
Source: The Law of Success
“Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.”
“Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.”
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.”
“Men of all lands and climes are brothers.”
Source: ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית
“Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.”
“Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.”
“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.”
“Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.”
“Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal”
Source: The Tomb
“Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Men of cold passions have quick eyes.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.”
Source: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865
“Men of culture are the true apostles of equality”
“Men of different tastes have different pursuits.”
“Men of dreams, the lovers and the poets, are better in most things than the men of my sort; the men of intellect. You take your being from your mothers. You live to the full: it is given you to love with your whole strength, to know and taste the whole of life. We thinkers, though often we seem to rule you, cannot live with half your joy and full reality. Ours is a thin and arid life, but the fullness of being is yours; yours the sap of the fruit, the garden of lovers, the joyous pleasaunces of beauty. Your home is the earth, ours the idea of it. Your danger is to be drowned in the world of sense, ours to gasp for breath in airless space. You are a poet, I a thinker. You sleep on your mother's breast, I watch in the wilderness. On me there shines the sun; on you the moon with all the stars. Your dreams are all of girls, mine of boys—”
Source: Narcissus and Goldmund
“Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers and Thomas Campbell: With an Original Biography and Sketch
“Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)”
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”
“Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.”
Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
“Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.”
“Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.”
“Men of genius are not quick judges of character.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm