Men Quotes
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So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
William Godwin
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
William Feather
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It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.
Wilson Mizner
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Men don't pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
Nicole Kidman
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Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Izaak Walton
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For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Cesare Beccaria
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Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
H. W. Brands
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It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.
Carol Leifer
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Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.
Brian Sewell
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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Jonathan Swift
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Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.
Sandra Bullock
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And what's more wonderful, when big loads foilOne ant or two to carry, quickly thenA swarm flock round to help their fellow-men.
John Clare
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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
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What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
Terry Brooks
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Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.
William Shakespeare
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No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
Seneca the Younger
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I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.
Sarah Palin
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The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
William Shakespeare