M Quotes
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“Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.”
“Men reject reality for riddles.”
“Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.”
Source: Apologetical Works; Octavius
“Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.”
“Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.”
“Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“Men respect standards- get some!”
“Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius”
“Men respect women who have standards - get some!”
“Men retreated from the heavens – but not for long. Before God could even blink, He had to squeeze up, and then He was evicted. Now Europe’s covered right across with Towers of Babel, and these days it’s not a matter of pride – it’s just that there’s no more living space left.”
“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around”
“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
“Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.”
“Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.”
“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
Source: Man and Wife: A Novel
“Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.”
“Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.”
Source: Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace: Student Edition
“Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.”
“Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.”
“men’s actions are the best guides to their thoughts”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Volume I
“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”
“Men's courage is reflected when he snaps at a women.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Men's deaths are epic, women's deaths are tragic.”
Source: A Thousand Ships
“Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support—all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her. She thus has to be described first as men dream of her since her being-for-men is one of the essential factors of her concrete condition.”
“Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.”
“Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.”
Source: Empress
“Men's good intentions can sometimes fall away when they are scared.”
Source: The Greatest Story Ever Told
“Men's ideas, though, continue to run in the old channels about oysters as well as God and war and women. Even when they know better they insist that months with R in them are all right, but that oysters in June or July or May or August will kill you or make you wish they had. This is wrong, of course, except that all oysters, like all men, are somewhat weaker after they have done their best at reproducing.”
“Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!”
“Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth.”
Source: Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
“Men's lives are short .
The hard man and his cruelties will be
Cursed behind his back and mocked in death.
But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him
strangers will bear report to the whole wide world,
and distant men will praise him.
- Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364)”
Source: The odyssey
“Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“Men’s minds are sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad; moods don’t always stay the same! To make an issue of it amounts to harassment.”
Source: Gora
“Men's pain and existential angst are the stuff of myth and legend and narratives that shape everything we do, but women's pain is a backdrop - a plot development to push the story along for the real protagonists. Disrupting that story means we're needy or selfish, or worst of all, man-haters - as if after all men have done to women over the ages the mere act of not liking them for it is most offensive.”
Source: Sex Object: A Memoir
“Men's pain and existential angst are the stuff of myth and legends and narratives that shape everything that we do, but women's pain is a backdrop - a plot development to push the story along for the real protagonists. Disrupting the story means we're needy or selfish, or worst of all, man-haters - as if after all men have done to women over the ages the mere act of not liking them for it is most offensive.”
Source: Sex Object: A Memoir
“Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.”
Source: Embroideries
“Men's rights
The right to be vulnerable
The right to be weak
The right to be wrong
The right to be intuitive
The right not to know
The right to be uncertain
The right to be flexible
The right not to be ashamed by any of these”
Source: The Descent of Man
“Men's sexual violence in all these forms ensures women's awareness of their second class status and constructs the way in which women interact with the world. However, many of the forms of men's sexual violence are not taken seriously, they are blamed on women, hidden, or compartmentalised so that the whole picture of how women's lives are affected cannot be grasped.”
Source: Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination
“Men’s slaves, their hearts are greedy,
The great do not mingle with their people when they rejoice.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.”
Source: Empress
“Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.”
Source: Warleggan
“Men," said Miss Marple, in the tone of one who sums up a class and finds it wanting, "are frequently not as sensible as they look.”
Source: The Body in the Library
“Men sat behind charcoal braziers turning ears of corn and fanning skewered liver kebabs they slipped sizzling into pockets of lavash bread with a tangle of cilantro and mint. Ribbons of fruit leather, apricot, plum, tamarind, and cherry, draped like laundry from wires strung between awnings.”
Source: The Last Days of Café Leila
“Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.”
“Men say foolish things. If we always did what men say, our lives would be hard and short.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.”
Source: A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
“Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'--just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen.”
Source: Wolf Hall
“Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.”
Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9
“Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.”
Source: English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834
“Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.”