Men Quotes
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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers -
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
William Law
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Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.
Sharon Stone -
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
William Hazlitt -
Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.
Edward Joseph Young -
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats -
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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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
Richard Scott Bakker -
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
C. S. Lewis -
Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.
Virginia Madsen -
God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.
C. S. Lewis -
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
William Hazlitt -
We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
Marianne Williamson
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I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
D. H. Lawrence -
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.
C. S. Lewis -
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
Rabindranath Tagore -
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
Paul Auster -
The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.
William Howard Taft -
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
William James
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
Charles Fletcher Dole -
The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God.
George Washington -
Henny “was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.
Christina Stead