Men Quotes
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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
William Shakespeare -
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Paul Auster
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
Hedy Lamarr -
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.
Emmeline Pankhurst -
A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-Z -
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Seneca the Younger -
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
William Laud
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
Bret Easton Ellis -
No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
Nelson Rockefeller -
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw -
I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
Jimmy Buffett -
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
William Shakespeare -
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.
Tony Hillerman
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Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
Michael Gurian -
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
P. D. James -
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
Max Lerner -
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.
Amy Sedaris -
Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.
Vera Brittain -
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
John F. Kennedy
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.
Virginia Madsen -
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
John Dos Passos -
[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.
Hal Borland