M Quotes
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“Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.”
“Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.”
“Most men are like children, or rather the teenagers -- they don’t trust the women who are cordial and interesting and funny and easygoing, they are rather in for the insurmountable obstacles of some women, and there they find their happiness and their twisted reward.”
“Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.”
“Most men are merely bio-social robots that think and act in an automatic way. Their natural ‘micro-scheme’ — brain under the influence of genetic coding and constant hormone surge determines the biological destiny of them. İn addition, being unwillingly born in certain social circumstances — from society, in general up to family, in particular -- there is no other destiny which can determine the future of a bio-social robot. In order to transform from social bio-robot to a conscious human being, in the strict sense of term, you should cultivate yourself -- your brain and mind through meditation. Meditation is not worship, or any spiritual act; it is rather mindfulness and concentration on your thought, desires and memory, most part of which is hidden in the unconscious mind. Meditation is an introspection, you can also realize it by doing science and acquiring knowledge that would enable you to better understand your mind and brain. Meditation is a means of reorganization of the brain design and redirection of its neurochemical activity, which in turn means the change of the biological destiny. God, or nature creates only a bio-social robot, it depends on you whether to become a human being, who is capable of getting to the bottom of his mind and brain, or not.”
“Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.”
“Most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.”
Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies
“Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.”
“Most men are not that evolved.”
“Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
“Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set
“Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.”
“Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.”
“Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point”
“Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.”
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.”
Source: An Anthology
“Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.”
“Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“Most men are unwilling to be taught.”
“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.”
“Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.”
“Most men believe deep down that all women, even those they see on television, are potential mates.”
Source: Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese
“Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.”
“Most men can make moves, decisions, mistakes, plans, money, babies, love, war, progress, or even history. Not all men have what it takes to make a worthwhile difference in this world. Substance, drive, dedication, intelligence, faith and values; that comes from within. Its not what a MAN can make but what a MAN is made of that's impressive.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.”
“Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.”
“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.”
“Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.”
“Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves: for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did and thought and loved when they were alive.”
“Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.”
“Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon”
Source: Time Untime
“Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Source: Power: A New Social Analysis
“Most men do not have the balls to help their women to not need them.”
“Most men don't understand that the instance of touch does not necessarily situate a woman as seduced. More is involved. The cumulative effect of his kind words and actions throughout keeps her connected. Therefore, a man who acts like a lion in the day and behaves like a lamb at night is a transparent intrigue of a selfish man whose interest is a woman's body and nothing more.”
“Most men don't understand that the instance of touch does not necessarily situate a woman as seduced. More is involved. The cumulative effect of his kind words and actions throughout the day keeps her connected. Therefore, a man who acts like a lion in the day and behaves like a lamb at night is a transparent intrigue of a selfish man whose interest is a woman's body and nothing more.”
“Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones”
“Most men each have a to-do list of women that they plan on executing if and when they get rich or famous.”
“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”
“Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.”
Source: Killosophy
“Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable.
[Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]”
“Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.”
“Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.”
“Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.”
“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”
“Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.”
“Most men go from one female to the next. The unworthy ones strut about, pulling you in with falsehoods. Which is probably why Ma fell for a man like Pa. Tate wasn't the only guy who left me. Chase Andrews even talked to me about marriage, but he married someone else. Didn't even tell me; I read it in the paper."
"I'm so sorry. I am, but, Kya, it's not just guys who are unfaithful. I've been duped, dropped, run over a few times myself. Let's face it, a lot of times love doesn't work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections. Look at us; you and I have each other now, and just think, if I have kids and you have kids, well, that's a whole new string of connections. And on it goes. Kya, if you love Tate, take a chance."
Kya thought of Ma's painting of Tate and herself as children, their heads close together, surrounded by pastel flowers and butterflies. Maybe a message from Ma after all.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”