M Quotes
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“Men so sick they are dying of death.”
Source: Days Without End
“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”
Source: Moral essays
“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”
“Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.”
“Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.”
“Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.”
Source: Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.”
Source: Women and Sports: 2
“Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!”
Source: Humility and Absolute Surrender
“Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.”
“Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.”
“Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony”
Source: The Prince
“Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.”
“Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.”
Source: The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic
“Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.”
Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’
One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause.
It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.”
Source: Jackboot Britain
“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.”
Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.”
“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”
“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.”
Source: Pensées
“Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.”
“Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.”
“Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul hung speechless in the pause, the void, the terror between the living and the dead; how, all garments rent and cast aside, the naked soul passed over the very mouth of Hell. Once there, there was no turning back; once there, the soul remembered, though the heart sometimes forgot.”
Source: Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin (4-Oct-2001) Paperback
“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“Men started praying to you, begging for a taste. That legend of yours spiraled out of control. You gave the people hope. They were told you were all they ever needed.”
Source: The Red Light Princess
“Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.”
“Men still control the news, both on and off camera.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.”
“Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.”
Source: The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon
“Men still have everything to say about their sexuality, and everything to write. For what they have said so far, for the most part, stems from the opposition activity/
passivity, from the power relation between a fantasized obligatory virility meant
to invade, to colonize, and the consequential phantasm of woman as a “dark
continent” to penetrate and to “pacify.” (We know what “pacify” means in terms of
scotomizing the other and misrecognizing the self.) Conquering her, they’ve made
haste to depart from her borders, to get out of sight, out of body. The way man has
of getting out of himself and into her whom he takes not for the other but for his
own, deprives him, he knows, of his own bodily territory. One can understand
how man, confusing himself with his penis and rushing in for the attack, might
feel resentment and fear of being “taken” by the woman, of being lost in her,
absorbed, or alone.”
Source: The Laugh of the Medusa
“Men still have to be governed by deception.”
“Men still rule this world and as a result the world is broken. Men still hold most positions of power, men control governments, men control the media, and it is always men who start wars. Men have tricked women into thinking they see us as equals, but real equality, for all women everywhere, still feels like little more than a pipe dream. The woman on this island have had enough.”
Source: Beautiful Ugly
“Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.”
“Men Stjernerne tier og blinker allesammen paa en Gang, som om en fin kold Vind kruser sig hen gennem Æteren.”
Source: Den lange Rejse: Første Bind
“Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.”
“Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.”
Source: The Lonesome Gods
“Men study science as god not the God of science.”
“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”
“Men stumbled away toward illusions in the brutal light. Men thought they were home, walking into their front doors, hugging their wives, making love. Still they walked. Men were swimming. Men were killing Mendez. Men were on the beach, collecting shells and watching their children splash. Their women stood naked before them, soft bellies, hands on ribs, breasts. Men hid their faces from a furious God. And they walked.
A voice was heard in the light-shatter, saying “He’s going to die. Lay him down here and let him die. Keep walking.”
The desert, out of focus and suddenly terribly sharp, burst white and yellow in their eyes. It tilted. Elongated. It was at an impossible angle! It tipped up towards the sun, and if they didn’t crawl, they would slide right off it and fall forever. It made noise: there were engines beneath the desert. It made evil grinding noises, mechanical humming. No, it was insectile, the screech of hunger and derision. The devils were under the rocks, spitting insults. The black head laughed. I believe in God the father, creator of heaven and earth. No, it did not fucking laugh—- it was silent as a graveyard out there. Just the crunch and slide, crunch and slide, of endless hopeless footsteps. Hundreds of footsteps.”
Source: The Devil's Highway: A True Story
“Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.”
“Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.”
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”
“Men succeed. Women get married.
Men fail. Women get married.
Men enter monasteries. Women get married.
Men start wars. Women get married.
Men stop them. Women get married.”
Source: The Female Man
“Men such as him do not have to clean up the messes they make, but we have to clean up our own messes, and theirs into the bargain.”
Source: Alias Grace
“Men suck,” Bailey said, nodding supportively then frowning at Vaughn. “Why do you suck so much? Too much ball toxins?”
“Sounds about right,” he muttered, rolling another strike. “Girls get PMS. Guys get ball toxins. Common knowledge.”
Source: Damaged and the Cobra
“Men suck, even imaginary ones”
“Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.”
“Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves .”
Source: Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas