M Quotes
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“Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. Gabriel lately, for the first time since his prostration by misfortune, had been independent in thought and vigorous in action to a marked extent-conditions which, powerless without an opportunity as an opportunity without them is barren, would have given him a sure lift upwards when the favourable conjunction should have occurred. But this incurable loitering beside Bathsheba Everdene stole his time ruinously. The spring tides were going by without floating him off, and the neap might soon come which could not.”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.”
“Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them”
“Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.”
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”
“Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.”
“Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.”
“Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.”
“Men think more about returning home than about leaving.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.”
“Men think that misogyny is a women's issue; women's to endure and women's to fix. White people think that racism is a pet issue for people of color; not like the pure, economic grievances of the working class. Rape is a rape victim's problem: What was she wearing? Where was she walking? Had she had sex before?”
Source: The Witches Are Coming
“Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.”
Source: The Woman's Bible
“Men think that the best use of their eyes is to weigh a woman's anatomy
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti”
Source: Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
“Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.”
Source: How to Capture a Countess
“Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.”
“Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.”
Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835
“Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.”
“Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.”
“Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.”
“men thinks women are stupid about finance ,about science and politics. otherwise they think themselves super intelligent. no . I am not saying this from hate or anger ,I am saying this because I have seen such persons around me . if a woman weak in finance ,with a limited budget how they manage households ? or in crisis come up with reserved fund ? they understand loan ,as equal overdraft ,they understand where her signature can protect her respect where might insult . they just pretend to be stupid much time ,that their loved one may feel safe and can be relaxed that their tricks are still unknown . funny . like let them win”
“Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.”
“Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.”
“Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.”
Source: The Stories of Ray Bradbury
“Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.”
“Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“Men tillige med denne U-ligheds Ophævelse, forsvandtes all Æmulation; saa at de, som tilforn havde søgt at distingvere sig ved Videnskab og Flittighed, for at nyde de Embeder, som vare best aflagde, bleve lunkne i deres Studeringer; og, naar nogen bebreydede dem saadant, svarede de: Hvad nytter det, at vi distingvere os blant andre, naar Belønningerne ere lige?og havde de derudi ikke U-ret.”
Source: Epistler
“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...
“Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.”
“Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.”
Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women
“Men to be truly won must be won by truth.”
“Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.”
Source: The Complete Works Of O. Henry
“Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.”
Source: The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
“Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb to the empty values of a materialistic society. Again, before healing may begin, men must acknowledge the reality of what lies within. Among those confusing emotions is a deep grief for the loss of the personal father as companion, model and support, and a deep hunger for the fathers as a source of wisdom, solace and inspiration.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“Men told Lucia I was lovely looking, but completely cold. Why cold? I let them kiss me when they must, in cabs, dancing in hot nightclubs, at parties. They were not real. Neither was the office.
Clothes were real. I bought many clothes so that, when Peter called up, I could say “come over instantly” and I would be marvellously dressed. I dressed carefully, always, because I might meet some friend of Peter’s, who would go back to him and say, “I saw Patricia; she was looking beautiful.” Then he would call up sooner.”
Source: Ex-wife
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.”
“Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
“Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.”
“Men treat you the same way you treat your sensuality.”
“Men treat you, the way you make them treat you.”
Source: Girlfriend's Roadmap to Dating: Empowering Women & Finding the Good Guys
“Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.”
“Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.”
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herodotus (Illustrated)
“Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.”
“Men try to appear excellent in preaching but they are less excellent in practicing what they preach.”
Source: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
“Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.”