M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.”
“Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.”
“Most men who have made a pass at me end up missing a finger or two, Red."
"I'd still have plenty left to satisfy you, I promise."
She looked back at him, then started snickering. "That was a decently good line."
"Thanks!" He raised his mug. "So...”
Source: Oathbringer
“Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.”
“Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.”
“Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.”
“Most men will not swim before they are able to.”
“Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.”
“Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.”
“Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.”
“Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.”
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.”
“Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.”
Source: Quicksilver
“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.”
“Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.”
Source: Leviathan
“Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.”
“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.”
“Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.”
“Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.”
“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”
Source: The Secret of the Indian
“Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.”
“Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.”
“Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.”
“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.”
Source: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
“Most metaverses provide immersive and fun experiences, but they also prevent users from escaping. They're 3D gilded cages, intentionally built to lock users in.”
“Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.”
“Most Michigan residents can get a copy of their birth certificates within weeks by simply placing an order online.
But for Detroit native Rudy Owens, attempts to obtain his birth records took decades of legal battles.
Why? Because he is an adoptee.
Owens is the author of a new book You Don’t Know How Lucky You are: An Adoptee’s Journey Through the American Adoption Experience.
(From, Michigan Radio, Stateside, June 11, 2018)”
“Most middle-aged men want a younger woman as a partner. [...] Men could train their eyes to appreciate the beauty in older faces and bodies like I did – it would help if we saw more older women in the media, your sense of beauty adjusts with constant exposure — but I don't think men are willing to put in that kind of effort.”
Source: To Throw Away Unopened
“Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you get into that witches' brew that is the combination of race and poverty.”
“Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.”
“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.”
“Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.”
Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
“Most mistakes which seem huge in the heat of the moment are quickly forgotten.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
“Most moderately active children – as long as they have full stomachs – cope well with exotic experiences, but parents should get fit for their trip. Young children will expect their parents to be All Powerful so they would be wise to prepare properly and arrive with toned quads or they might not keep up on the slopes.”
Source: Your Child's Health Abroad: A Manual for Travelling Parents
“Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.”
“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”
Source: A Critic in Pall Mall
“Most modern comedy is crap.”
“Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.”
“Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.”
“Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.”