M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.”
“Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.”
“Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?”
Source: St Mawr and Other Stories
“Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course
“Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.”
Source: Works
“Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.”
“Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?”
“Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.”
“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.”
Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
“Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.”
Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day
“Most men hope to go to heaven when they die; but few, it may be feared, take the trouble to consider whether they would enjoy heaven if they got there. Heaven is essentially a holy place; it's inhabitants are all holy; it's occupations are all holy.”
Source: Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Most men I know adore women, and I am including gay men. I think studies on jury selection show that the biggest critics of women - people less likely to trust their character or judgment - are women.”
“Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.”
“Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'”
“Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.”
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.”
Source: Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
“Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.”
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”
Source: My Story
“Most men know what they hate, few what they love.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!”
“Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.”
“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
“Most men love women. Most men are intrigued and bedeviled by them. Most men spend their lives dreaming about women. It's the most natural, normal thing in the world to do, but here comes the left and the Democrat Party trying to politicize even male-female relationships by inculcating into them things like feminism, proper political behavior.”
“Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.”
“Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.”
Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series
“Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall”
“Most men needed sunlight to survive: Dorian needed a spotlight.”
Source: Prince of Ruin
“Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.”
Source: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market
“Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.”
“Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.”
“Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.”
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. They fare as did that dwarf who kept guard over a captured princess in his castle. One day he took midday nap. When he woke up an hour later, the princess was gone. Quickly he pulled on his seven-league boots; with one stride he was far beyond her.”
Source: Either/Or, Part I
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
Source: Either/or
“Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Most men's minds are so constituted that they have to think by means of examples ; if you do not supply these, they will supply them for themselves, and if you leave it wholly to them, they will do it badly. On the other hand, if you start from familiar things, they are very quick to make the necessary generalizations. In a sense they are making such generalizations constantly; whenever they recognize the thing before them as a chair or a lamp-post, they are leaping from the particular to the general by a process of implicit classification.”
Source: On Philosophical Style
“Most men see most women as sex objects, whereas most women see most men as security objects.”
“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts
“Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.”
“Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.”
“Most men spontaneously live a fictitious and alien life. 'Most people are other people,' said Oscar Wilde, and he was right.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.”
“Most men, the herd, have never tasted solitude. They leave father and mother, but only to crawl to a wife and quietly succumb to new warmth and ties. They are never alone, they never commune with themselves. And when a solitary man crosses their path, they fear him and hate him like the plague, they fling stones at him and find no peace until they are far from him.”
“Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .”
Source: Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous Corrections and with the Addition of Several Thousand Works and Also with Addition to the History of the Language and to the Grammar by H.J. Todd
“Most men think the most difficult part of being a porn star is having sex for so long without ejaculating. They’re right but for the wrong reason. It’s having sex for so long and then ejaculating that’s the problem. Porn becomes a job like any other pretty quick. Then it’s all about maintaining the erection and being ready to fire on command. It’s not easy, believe me.”
Source: Porno Valley
“Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.”
Source: Bathing the Lion
“Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.”
Source: Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil