Men Quotes
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Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Of living creatures, business men are nearest sane; their philosophy is as accurate as their multiplication table.
E. W. Howe
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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
William Butler Yeats
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
William Lyon Phelps
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In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.
Charles Krauthammer
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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand
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Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.
William Feather
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But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
Catherynne M. Valente
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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
Vance Havner
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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Minna Antrim
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I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
W. Somerset Maugham
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
William Hazlitt
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There is a history in all men's lives.
William Shakespeare
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I spent pretty much all my wages from 'No Country For Old Men' on a pair of cowboy boots. They're ridiculous. It's like wearing two Christmas trees on my legs.
Kelly Macdonald
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The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.
Jerry Hall
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When I first set out to make movies, that's what I thought I was going to do - make movies that mean something. And each movie had its own message, some stronger than others. Even 'X-Men' has its own message of tolerance.
Lauren Shuler Donner
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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?
Saint Augustine
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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
William Shakespeare