M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures; Or Plain Advice for Plain People: In One Volume
“Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.”
“Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.”
Source: The Andromeda Strain
“Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.”
“Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.”
“Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.”
Source: Escape from Evil
“Men use the night to erase us.”
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.”
Source: Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V
“Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
“Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.”
“Men usurped women's right to name their children for themselves, an act inconceivable for the hundreds of thousands of years when the male contribution to procreation was unknown.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.”
“Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.”
“Men ville mand imidlertid spørge dem saa,
Hvor lyckes i Fisket? Hvad kan i vel faa,
De svarer dig hogtet i bogte;
Part svarer: det er saare lidet vi faar,
Part svarer: Vi foer om alt Havet i Gaar,
Sled neppe saa mange vi kaagte.”
Source: The Trumpet of Nordland
“Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.”
“Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.”
Source: The Prince
“MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up Sputnik, and the U.S. would not be outdone. I admire that about the American spirit. There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.”
“Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.”
“Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.”
“Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.”
Source: True Love (And Other Lies)
“Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.”
Source: Closer: A Play
“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.”
“Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.”
“Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.”
“Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.”
“Men want success and sex. Women want everything.”
“Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.”
“Men want to be a rich man. Women want to get a rich man.”
“Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.”
“Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Men want to be right. Let them, I say. It drives him crazy when I won't take the other end of the rope. "Okay, you're right" are three devastating words.”
Source: Bellevue Square
“Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.”
“Men want to make women happy.”
“Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.”
“Men want us not to think. But why? Because we're empty and stupid, that's what they tell us--but what if that's not the truth at all?...What if it's the opposite? Something more combustible? What if men designed the world this way, not because they think we're nothing, but because they sense great power in us and want to press it down or chain it up?”
Source: The Palace of Eros
“Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.”
“Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.”
Source: Reamde
“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”
Source: The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books
“Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it.”
Source: Sooley
“Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us - as a society - for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward's account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.”
“Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“Men weigh love with hands.”
Source: The New Land
“Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“Men were, after all, not wholly inconsequent; their attachment to Mary rested on an instinct of self-preservation. They knew their own peril. If there was to be a future life, Mary was their only hope. She alone represented Love. The Trinity were, or was, One, and could, by the nature of its essence, administer justice alone. Only childlike illusion could expect a personal favour from Christ. Turn the dogma as one would, to this it must logically come. Call the three Godheads by what names one liked, still they must remain One; must administer one justice; must admit only one law. In that law, no human weakness or error could exist; by its essence it was infinite, eternal, immutable. There was no crack and no cranny in the system, through which human frailty could hope for escape. One was forced from corner to corner by a remorseless logic until one fell helpless at Mary's feet.
Without Mary, man had no hope except in atheism, and for atheism the world was not ready. Hemmed back on that side, men rushed like sheep to escape the butcher, and were driven to Mary; only too happy in finding protection and hope in a being who could understand the language they talked, and the excuses they had to offer.”
“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”
Source: Eona
“Men were always there for the fun parts, she thought. Women were always left to pick up the pieces.”
Source: Call the Canaries Home