M Quotes
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“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.”
Source: Shutter Island
“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”
“Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.”
Source: Under dispute
“Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ... make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.”
“Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.”
“Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.”
“Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.”
“Men who can face the world bravely do not need to raise their decibel level or their hand to a woman. They need no validation that they are man enough.”
Source: Reham Khan
“Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads
“Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.”
Source: Miss Mackenzie: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk.”
“Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.”
Source: The New Zealander
“Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.”
Source: The Rambler
“Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children”
“Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.”
“Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.”
“Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.”
“Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index
“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth.
Art lives on but wealth diminishes.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.”
“Men who demand submission and obedience through fear and force do not represent the kingdom of God. They are rather representatives of the kingdom of darkness. Marriages led by men who use force and fear do not thrive and flourish as they should. Instead, these marriages become places of bondage and oppression, and they are reminiscent of hell, the dwelling place of devil.”
“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.”
Source: The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays
“Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily loose patience and fall into error when judging the work of others.”
Source: The Bridge on the Drina
“Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily lose patience and fall into error when judging the work of others.”
Source: The Bridge on the Drina
“Men who do things are men who are already dead.”
Source: Death in Spring
“Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.”
“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Men who don't understand women fall into two groups: Bachelors and Husbands.”
“Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers.”
“Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
“Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.”
Source: Relevance; the Role of Christianity in the Twentieth Century
“Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight”
Source: The Religion of Jesus
“Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.”
Source: Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
“Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.”
“Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.”
“Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence.”
Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.”
Source: On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan
“Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.”
Source: How to be Hap-hap-happy Like Me
“Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.”
Source: I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething
“Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.”
“Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.”
“Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.”
“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow. ...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath