Wilson Mizner Quotes
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
Patricia Marx -
During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
Halsey -
People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.
Carly Pope
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I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?
D. B. Sweeney -
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Saint Basil -
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac -
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
Gay Talese -
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 -
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
Aaron Huey -
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
Larry Elder -
I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski -
I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
Waris Ahluwalia
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To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms -
The incentives that people need to work and to find meaning in their lives should be found beyond material wealth and power.
Didier Sornette -
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton -
When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
Diogenes -
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
Wilson Mizner