M Quotes
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“Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.”
“Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason”
“Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.”
“Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.”
“Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.”
“Men take more pains to mask than mend.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Men take my picture and sometimes give me money. They ask me to take off my clothes and then they take my picture. They call it art. They call it nude.”
Source: The Other Side: A Memoir
“Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.”
“Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation
“Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.”
Source: Five Japanese Love Stories
“Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman”
“Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?”
“Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'”
“Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.”
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.”
“Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.”
“Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here.”
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
“Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.”
“Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.”
“Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.”
“Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“Men tend to be selfish.”
“Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.”
“Men tend to dominate whatever public discourse they participate in, and another big part of feminism is to let women have their say. Men's voices can be welcome at the table, but there is a time and a place, and maybe it's now, for men to make a little less noise, make their needs less known, and listen to the needs of others.”
“Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.”
“Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.”
“Men tend to leave their financial adviser at a single-digit-percent rate in any given year. And women leave their husband and their joint financial adviser in the year after their spouse's death at a rate of greater than 70 percent - seven-zero.”
“Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'”
“Men tend to rebel when young and become more conservative with age, but women tend to be more conservative when young and become rebellious as we grow older. I’d noticed this pattern in the suffragist/ abolitionist era, when women over fifty, sixty, even seventy were a disproportionate number of the activists and leaders—think of Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony, or Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Ida B. Wells—but I’d assumed it was due to the restrictions placed on younger women by uncontrolled childbirth and their status as household chattel: hard facts that limited all but a few single or widowed white women, and all but even fewer free women of color.”
Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy
“Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.”
Source: The House of Wolfe: A Border Noir
“Men tend to treat women as fragile creatures, but our bodies were built to withstand pain and hard work, think with profound insight. We were created to do what men can’t. And if that isn’t reason enough for us to be treated equal, I’m not sure what is.”
Source: The Vestige
“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”
“Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.”
“Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.”
“Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I, that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabrick hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and, considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ’Tis not only the mischief of diseases, and the villany of poisons, that make an end of us; we vainly accuse the fury of guns, and the new inventions of death:—it is in the power of every hand to destroy us, and we are beholden unto every one we meet, he doth not kill us. There is therefore but one comfort left, that though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.”
Source: Religio Medici
“Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.”
Source: Religio Medici
“Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“Men. The day they learned to admit a mistake was the day they became women.”
Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love
“Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.”
Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities
“Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.”
Source: Views and reviews
“Men. There seemed to be no escape from them.”
Source: Sleeping Beauties
“Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.
-Nina”
Source: Tainted Blood
“Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.”
Source: Not So Deep as a Well
“Men, they’re pigs, but I love their dumb asses.”
“Men. They thought they ruled the world but couldn't so much as take a step without, that very same night, seeking the opinions of their partners, lovers, girlfriends, mothers.”
Source: Hippie