M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman's body. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.”
“Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.”
“Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.”
Source: Silence Dogood, the Busy-Body, and Early Writings: Boston and London, 1722-1726, Philadelphia, 1726-1757, London, 1757-1775
“Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.”
“Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.”
“Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”
“Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.”
“Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.”
“Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.”
“Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.”
“Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can reach WITHIN women to fvck/construct us from the inside out. Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women's own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, even if she does not feel forced.”
“Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.”
“Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.”
“Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.”
Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series
“Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.”
Source: Poetical works
“Men's vows are women's traitors”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.”
Source: Joyzelle (English Edition)
“Men, age 25 to 55, the labor-force participation rate is down 10%. That's unbelievable. There are 35,000 dying of opioids every year. Seventy percent of kids age 17 to 24 can't get into the US military because of health or education. Obesity, diabetes, reading and writing. Is that the society we wanted? No. We should be working on these things, acknowledge the flaws we have, and come up with solutions. Not Democrat. Not Republican. Not knee-jerk.”
“Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.”
“Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute.”
“Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.”
Source: How to be Hap-hap-happy Like Me
“Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking into it.”
“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates”
“Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.”
Source: Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women
“Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.”
“MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.”
“Men, do as I say and I will always lead you to victory.”
“Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”
“Men, for the most part, like to pursue women. We like not knowing if we can catch you. We feel rewarded when we do. Especially when the chase is a long one.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
“Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.”
Source: Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream
“Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”
Source: Do You Come Here Often?
“Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson
“Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that's not quite as much use today.”
Source: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It
“Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us. And while we pray, let us get on our knees and not look down but up with faces raised to the sky so that we can see God and ask his blessing in what we are about to do.”
“Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.”
“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.”
“Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.”
“Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men—or less of a man. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.”
“Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me”
“Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.”