Men Quotes
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo
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Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.
Elif Safak
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
Martin Gardner
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I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.
Kahlil Gibran
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The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:-That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.
Leonardo da Vinci
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What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
William Beveridge
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Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.
Ellen Tauscher
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Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
James Hillman
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
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to men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.
Pope John Paul II
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I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
Luchino Visconti
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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be outdoors, to go to war; and the Greeks, both men and women alike, were fascinated by these stories. Maybe it was a safe way to explore the idea of women who could be equals of men.
Adrienne Mayor
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A girl who never smiles has such power - what men will do to turn up but one corner of her mouth! She already wears her red war-gown and her circlet of cinnabar poppies. They bring out the color in her grimace.
Catherynne M. Valente
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
Zebulon Pike
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton
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The trouble in the world is nearly all due to the fact that one-half of the people are men, and the other half women.
E. W. Howe
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.
W. G. Sebald
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A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.
Carole Lombard
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Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
Warren Farrell
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I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
Burgess Meredith