M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.”
“Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.”
“Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and ... they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
“Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
“Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.”
“Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Gray (Illustrated)
“Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.”
“Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.”
“Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.”
“Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?”
Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays
“Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.”
“Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.”
“Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.”
“Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.”
“Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.”
“Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.”
“men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.”
Source: No Nice Girl Swears
“Men will judge your past deeds by your last.”
“Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.”
“Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“Men will more and more realize that there is no meaning in democracy if there is no meaning in anything; there is no meaning in anything if the universe has not a center of significance and an authority that is the author of our rights.”
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
“Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.”
“Men will never be ready for women like us, and it is not our job to ready them.”
Source: Queen and Conqueror
“Men will never ovulate, gestate, lactate, menstruate, or go through menopause. Women who identify as men might, but that thing is different.”
Source: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
“Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
Source: Watership Down
“Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.”
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends”
Source: Democracy in America
“Men will not always die quietly.”
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.”
“Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.”
“Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.”
“Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Men will not save women for nothing, but themselves. Women have to save themselves.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.”
“Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give it a bottle, but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.”
“Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.”
“Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.”
“Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.”
“Men will sacrifice their lives to bring about a better world—whatever that may mean—but they will not budge an inch to attain paradise. Nor will they struggle to create a bit of paradise in the hell they find themselves.”
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obedience if they see reflected in them the authority of Christ, God and Man. Peace and harmony, too, will result; for with the spread and the universal extension of the kingdom of Christ, men will become more and more conscious of the link that binds them together, and thus many conflicts will either be prevented entirely or at least their bitterness be diminished.”
“Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.”
“Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.”
“Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.”
“Men will then realize that the word “spiritual” has little reference to religion, as was hitherto its major significance, but that it connotes divine activity in every phase of human living and human thinking;”
Source: Problems of Humanity
“Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.”
“Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.”
Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
“Men will vilify you for enjoying sex, and they’ll vilify you for using it to get ahead…but they’ll punish you if you don’t enjoy it, if you don't use it to get ahead.
There should be more choices left to me than either slut or prude.”
Source: The Devil You Know