Men Quotes
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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.
William James
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
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You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
Richard Madden
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
Seneca the Younger
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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
Herbert Spencer
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
Demosthenes
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
William Butler Yeats
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.
William Shakespeare
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The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.
Mark Levin
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A man I am cross'd with adversity.
William Shakespeare
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All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
Sarah Dessen
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Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.
William Shakespeare
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The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.
William Howard Taft
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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
William Butler Yeats
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It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
Wendy McElroy
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.
Virginia Woolf
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
Helen Keller
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in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
William Howard Taft
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All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.
Hermann Hesse
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I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve Martin
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I love Gap for affordable men's sweaters.
Alexa Chung