M Quotes
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“Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.”
Source: The Border Trilogy
“Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!”
“Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.”
Source: Poetical works
“Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.”
“Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.”
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and abusrd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death.”
Source: The Magus
“Men see their Beatrice with a luminous shimmer, a numinous haze, a close and yet far quality: but what do women see?”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Men see themselves in women's eyes. Women trust the mirror instead.”
Source: The New Land
“Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.”
Source: This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War
“Men see what they are most afraid of.”
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“Men see what they expect to see.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Men seek a divinity to serve and adore, and women were given the power to fulfill this desire in a man through their sensuality.”
“Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.”
Source: Killosophy
“Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity”
“Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.”
Source: On Symbols and Society
“Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)
“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”
Source: Pensées
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. Constantly then give to thyself this retreat, and renew thyself; and let thy principles be brief and fundamental, which, as soon as thou shalt recur to them, will be sufficient to cleanse the soul completely, and to send thee back free from all discontent with the things to which thou returnest. For with what art thou discontented? With the badness of men? Recall to thy mind this conclusion, that rational animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part of justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily; and consider how many already, after mutual enmity, suspicion, hatred, and fighting, have been stretched dead, reduced to ashes; and be quiet at last.- But perhaps thou art dissatisfied with that which is assigned to thee out of the universe.- Recall to thy recollection this alternative; either there is providence or atoms, fortuitous concurrence of things; or remember the arguments by which it has been proved that the world is a kind of political community, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps corporeal things will still fasten upon thee.- Consider then further that the mind mingles not with the breath, whether moving gently or violently, when it has once drawn itself apart and discovered its own power, and think also of all that thou hast heard and assented to about pain and pleasure, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps the desire of the thing called fame will torment thee.- See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribed, and be quiet at last. For the whole earth is a point, and how small a nook in it is this thy dwelling, and how few are there in it, and what kind of people are they who will praise thee.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.”
“Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“Men seeking power only acknowledged fact insofar as it supported their ambitions.”
Source: An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”
Source: Never Say Goodbye: Essays
“Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.”
“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”
Source: Sweet Thursday
“Men seem to think that Page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.”
“Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior”
“Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one task. While they still live in the corruption of the flesh they give themselves to that service in which they will persevere when the corruption has been laid aside. And already they come in sight of what the Lord and Savior held out when He said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God' (Mt. 5:8).”
Source: Conferences
“Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.”
“Men seldom enjoy learning the secrets we women make for them to appear more than they are.”
Source: Delicious Death
“Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.”
Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...
“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
“Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.”
“Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.”
“Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes
“Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.”
“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
Source: Works
“Men. Seriously. Idiots.”
“Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.”
“Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.”
Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet
“Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)
“Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.”
Source: The Girl from the Train
“Men?" she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.”
Source: The Little Prince
“Men!" she finally said, as though that one word summed up all the shortcomings most women are willing to overlook and learn to put up with and ultimately forgive in the men they hope to love for the rest of their lives even when they know they won't”
Source: Find Me
“Men, she knew, were not to be trusted. They had their courting face--all politeness, and bows, and compliments, and "May I have this dance?" And then they had the face they wore to stare down at their peas as they avoided the gaze of their wife across the dinner table. Worse still, she knew, she knew, that there were some very respectable, dignified, and exceedingly polite gentlemen who wore quite another face entirely behind closed doors. This was a cruel face of power wielded over another--a horse, a servant, even a wife.”
Source: A Dangerous Man to Trust?
“Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.”
Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi