M Quotes
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“Men, perhaps, might nourish both heart and mind, but for a woman there could be no such luxury... How readily the rules of female behavior--gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness--turn to shackles.
So, she thought, there must be declared a new kind of virtue: one that made the throwing off of such rules, and even such deceit as this required, praiseworthy.”
Source: The Weight of Ink
“Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.”
“Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.”
Source: John Donne: The Major Works
“Men plan. Fate Laughs.”
Source: Cursor's Fury
“Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord”
“Men play at life. They use important words like principles and duty, honour and beliefs. But women have to sort things out. Wrap up the sandwiches. Mend broken knees and broken hearts. Clean surfaces.”
Source: Motherdarling
“Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.”
Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man
“Men play the game; women know the score.”
“Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask "Where is the love of God?" God points to that Cross as the unreserved manifestation of love so inconceivably infinite as to answer every challenge and silence all doubt for ever. And that Cross is not merely the public proof of what God has accomplished; it is the earnest of all that He has promised.”
Source: The Silence of God
“Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)
“Men practice war; beasts do not.”
“Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.”
Source: Alfred Hagart's household
“Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.”
Source: Pamphlets in philology and the humanities
“Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.”
Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“Men prefer to keep power to themselves. They make rules that dictate who gets to use it, and how, and why. I broke those rules when I saved you with my magic, and I’ll never regret it.”
Source: Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove
“Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.”
“Men pretend to be “just a friend” at first, even though they want to sleep with you from day one. Otherwise they wouldn't be spending any time, money or attention on you, because these are limited resources and they need these resources to attract a mate. They can't afford to squander them. So they apply these resources to the female that looks to be their best bet to get laid. But they also know that they can't tell the woman on day one that they want to sleep with her, because she'd think it's creepy. So they play along with the illusion that it's “just a friendship” that “suddenly” developed into more, when the woman finally feels inclined to sleep with the guy “because they have a deep connection.” But that was really his goal from day one.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“Men, priority number one is to care for your kids and care for your wife. When we as men provide for our family, the universe allows us to manifest our desires more easily.”
“Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.”
“Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.”
Source: Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life
“Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.”
Source: Mainly on the Air
“Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom.”
Source: Healology
“Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.”
“Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris)”
“Men protect women from those like them.”
Source: The New Land
“Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Men pursue younger women for sport all the time—whenever they start feeling a little insecure. But when a woman does it, it’s another thing altogether.”
Source: The Liar's Diary
“Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.”
“Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.”
“Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.”
Source: The Secret Chord
“Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.”
“Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.”
“Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?”
“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”
“Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.”
“Men realize that they have work to do, to pull up women and take ownership on where we are as a society, and that they have work to do to help their female relatives and friends - to give a voice to women, not in a patriarchal way, but in a supportive way. It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality.”
“Men really disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth...They have too many disgusting habits - like scratching themselves all the time. And it's really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it.”
“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”
“Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.”
“Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.”
“Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.”
“Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics