Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Seneca the Younger

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• Great men marry great women.

  

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• Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

  

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• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
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• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

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• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
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• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
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• If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• Men don't hear women.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

  

  Saint Bernard
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• I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

  

  Nancy Friday
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• Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.

  

  Ralph Norman
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• Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!

  

  Emily Martin
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• Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

  

  Willa Cather
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• There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn't share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and so surprises always happen. Things pop out without warning.

  

  Marcia Clark

• When one asked him what boys should learn, 'That,' said he, 'which they shall use when men.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Men

• Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Fortune
  • Heels