M Quotes
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“Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.”
“Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.”
Source: The Works of Joseph Addison
“Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women. Others are prompted by a desire to possess the endless variety of the objective female world.
The obsession of the former is lyrical: what they seek in women is themselves, their ideal, and since an ideal is by definition something that can never be found, they are disappointed again and again. The disappointment that propels them from woman to woman gives their inconstancy a kind of romantic excuse, so that many sentimental women are touched by their unbridled philandering.
The obsession of the latter is epic, and women see nothing the least bit touching in it: the man projects no subjective ideal on women, and since everything interests him, nothing can disappoint him. This inability to be disappointed has something scandalous about it. The obsession of the epic womanizer strikes people as lacking in redemption (redemption by disappointment).
Because the lyrical womanizer always runs after the same type of woman, we even fail to notice when he exchanges one mistress for another. His friends perpetually cause misunderstandings by mixing up his lovers and calling them by the same name.
In pursuit of knowledge, epic womanizers (and of course Tomas belonged in their ranks) turn away from conventional feminine beauty, of which they quickly tire, and inevitably end up as curiosity collectors. They are aware of this and a little ashamed of it, and to avoid causing their friends embarrassment, they refrain from appearing in public with their mistresses.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.”
“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...]
I did not know what to say to this.
Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind.
Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.”
Source: The Terror
“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life.
Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.”
“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
Source: The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
“Men who respect boundaries already know when to walk away”
“Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.”
Source: Dynasty of Death: A Novel
“Men who rise in status win greater autonomy or power, but women who rise in status must cede control of their reproductive and person life or their work.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!”
“Men who shared the load at home seemed just as pressed for time as their wives, and torn between the demands of career and small children...But the majority of men did not share the load at home. Some refused outright. Others refused more passively, often offering a loving shoulder to lean on, an understanding ear as their working wife faced the conflict they both saw as hers.”
“Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.”
Source: Witness
“Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.”
“Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.”
“Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.”
“Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying”
“Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.”
“Men who think in decades are dangerous.”
“Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.”
“Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.”
Source: My Story
“Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.”
Source: Cease and Desist
“Men who truly love money always value it more highly than any mere human affection.”
Source: Dictator
“Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
“Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Men who’ve made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they’ve chosen to follow.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“Men who want to get married
propose. You don’t need to read the signs. They propose and that’s the sign.”
Source: Wedding Night
“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.”
“Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.”
Source: Sophia's Secret
“Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.”
“Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek”
Source: Deaths For The Ladies
“Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.”
“Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.”
“Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.”
“Men who write about emotion are called brave. Women who do it are told it’s oversharing.”
“Men who write love letters don't live in this century.”
“Men who write love scenes as if they are dealing with the mechanical parts of an engine should know that such scenes have zero erotic effect and do not accomplish their primary mission of evoking a loving experience between people.”
Source: Stein on Writing
“Men whose acts are at direct variance with their words, command no respect, and what they say has but little weight; even truths, when uttered by them, seem to come blasted from their lips.”
“Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.”
Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct
“Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.”
Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues
“Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.”
“Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles
“Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends Hes throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth. And we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust.”
“Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“Men will always be at battle,” the little girl said with an uncanny maturity. With her stride unbroken, she continued “Whether that battle is on a battlefield like this one, or on the most difficult battlefield of the heart and mind. It really doesn’t matter all that much, men will battle.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”