William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
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• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
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• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

  Origen
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• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

  

  Garry Shandling
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• Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

  

  Karl Marx
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• I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

  

  Warren Farrell
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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
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• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
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• Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

  

  Mae West
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• I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

  

  Phil Knight
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• We're building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
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• Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza

• Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
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• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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