M Quotes
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“Men wouldn't lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don’t ask so many questions.”
Source: Rainbow - the shades of love
“Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book.”
“Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible”
“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say this is due to patriarchy is to beg the question of the behavior's origin. If men control society, why don't they just shut up and enjoy their supposed prerogatives? The answer is obvious when you consider sexual competition: men can't be quiet because that would give other men a chance to show off verbally. Men often bully women into silence, but this is usually to make room for their own verbal display. If men were dominating public language just to maintain patriarchy, that would qualify as a puzzling example of evolutionary altruism—a costly, risky individual act that helps all of one's sexual competitors (other males) as much as oneself. The ocean of male language that confronts modern women in bookstores, television, newspapers, classrooms, parliaments, and businesses does not necessarily come from a male conspiracy to deny women their voice. It may come from an evolutionary history of sexual selection in which the male motivation to talk was vital to their reproduction.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.”
Source: A Passage to India
“Men,you say you want a strong, intelligent, truly independent woman who wants you rather than needs you, who inspires you, who pushes you towards being yourself, who can stick by you through the hardest times, and who can be your rock through life's obstacles.
But you need to know that a truly strong, independent woman does not walk through life with her heart wide open. She has had to put up walls to block toxicity to obtain her strength. She is skeptical and always on alert from a lifetime of defense against predators. She is going to be a bit jaded, a little cynical, and a little scary because those qualities come with the struggle of obtaining that strength that gravitates you. She is going to doubt and question your good intentions because it has become her adaptability instincts that have allowed her to thrive.
She is not a ball of sunshine. She has flaws. She has a past. She has her demons. She knows better than to just let down her barriers for you simply because you voice a desire to enter. You have to prove your right of entrance. She will assume the worst of you because the worst has happened. If you want her to see otherwise, prove her wrong.”
“Men. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it’s not what you think. When we meet, we make … magic.”
Source: The Scarlet Gospels
“Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.”
Source: Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.”
Source: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
“Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us there in time for dessert. You should be thanking me." Morelli's mouth was open slightly and his face was registering a mixture of astonished disbelief and wounded, pissed-off male pride. Okay, it wasn't that much of a sacrifice at the time, and I knew he shouldn't be thanking me, but give me a break here... this wasn't famine in Ethiopia”
Source: Eleven on Top
“Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones”
“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.”
“Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.”
“Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.”
Source: The Letters of William James
“Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!”
“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
“Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.”
“Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.”
“Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.”
“Men's clothing hasn't changed in 200 years, maybe a lapel gets a little wider or a tie gets narrower from time to time. But it's usually always the same. There is stupidity in men's fashion. But women know who they are. They can change. Clothing is seductive for women. They get different personas by buying new clothes. But men don't.”
“Men's clothing is more pure in design. It's more simple and has no decoration. Women want that. When I started designing, I wanted to make men's clothes for women. But there were no buyers for it. Now there are. I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men decided this.”
“Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.”
“Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.”
Source: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered
“Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.”
“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
“Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.”
“Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.”
“Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.”
“Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.”
“Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.”
Source: For God So Loved: An In-Depth Look at the Bible's Most Loved Verse
“Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.”
“Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.”
“Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.”
“Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the all-searching eye of God.”
“Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.”
“Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.”
Source: Past and Present
“Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.”
Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
“Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.”
Source: History of the Peloponnesian War
“Men's language is as their lives.”
“Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.”
“Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.”
“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.”