M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.”
Source: L.P.
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
Source: Commentaries on the Gallic Wars
“Men willingly believe when they want to.”
“Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
Source: History of Europe: v. 1
“Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“Men with atavistic nature also developed such ferocity and violent nature in hunting such majestic beings first for food and later for entertainment. Any idiot can walk through the valley of death with calculated risk, but in the shadows of a man-eater is a frisson of catharsis that would lead the hunter to annihilation”
“Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)
“Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.”
“Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a few songs which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men. But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.”
“Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.”
Source: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
“Men with Honor are not killed by swords, they die of Shame.”
“Men with merit need to be rewarded, but men without merit need not be insulted.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Men with mortal wounds did not worry him like a woman in labor.”
Source: Empires of Sand by David Ball
“Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.”
Source: Revamp
“Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.”
“Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.”
“Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.”
“Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.”
“Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.”
“Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”
“Men without an organized system of thought will always be at the mercy of men who have one.”
“Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost”
Source: The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472
“Men without honor cannot build an honorable country. It is height of hypocrisy to expect a country of equity from such men.”
“Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.”
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“Men without jobs do not form families.”
“Men without joy seem like corpses.”
Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“Men without spines make poor soldiers.”
Source: Piggy Sense!: Save it for a rainy day
“Men, women, children - all have souls. Tables. Rocks. Wheels. Cups. All likewise have souls. Spirit lives in matter. All matter. Where else would it live?”
Source: Crossing Midnight, Vol. 2: A Map of Midnight
“Men & Women, respect your body as much as you would want others to respect you”
“Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.”
“Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.”
“Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.”
“Men work together, whether they work together or apart.”
“Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.”
“Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.”
Source: Heroes and Hero-worship
“Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.”
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
“Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.”
Source: The King Must Die
“Men would bless you or curse you;
The curse, a protest against failure,
The blessing, a hymn of the hunter
Who comes back from the hills
With provision for his mate.”
“Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.”
“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.”
“Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!".”
“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”
Source: A Theologico-Political Treatise
“Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph; universal harmonious cooperation, true history, would at last begin.
For if this was not so, do the ideas of progress, of history, have any meaning? Is there not a movement, however tortuous, from ignorance to knowledge, from mythical thought and childish fantasies to perception of reality face to face, to knowledge of true goals, true values as well as truths of fact? Can history be a mere purposeless succession of events, caused by a mixture of material factors and the play of random selection, a tale full of sound and fury signifying nothing? This was unthinkable. The day would dawn when men and women would take their lives in their own hands and not be self-seeking beings or the playthings of blind forces that they did not understand. It was, at the very least, not impossible to conceive that such an earthly paradise could be; and if conceivable we could, at any rate, try to march towards it. That has been at the centre of ethical thought from the Greeks to the Christian visionaries of the Middle Ages, from the Renaissance to progressive thought in the last century; and indeed, is believed by many to this day.”
Source: The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
“Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.”
Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth
“Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.”
“Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.”
“Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!”