Man Quotes
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If a man feared defeat, he would never give battle... Every victory is inevitably succeeded by defeat. It is the nature of our lives. A man might fight a thousand battles and emerge triumphant from every one; still, he will suffer defeat in the end, for we die and we are forgotten. If we cannot face defeat, we must live always, throughout our lives, in fear. For it awaits us all.
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I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
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Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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What man lacks most is will, constancy of will. Man works to earn his living, and when he finishes his day … He wants to sleep. He is lazy where public things are concerned. We let catastrophes come, we let them ripen. They don’t come because men want them to; they come because men want to sleep. ‘We can’t do anything about it. If it must happen, better not to know about it. Humanity has always been severely threatened. The threats are not diminishing. But one must sleep, after all. Sleep.
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Man, Twin Peaks ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.
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A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.
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I think that a man should be caring.
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I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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A man has a right to want to live.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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A man who runs away from death will run into death.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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If a man ever lets you know that he sees marriage as a trap, and women as nothing but scheming connivers, you are by no means to marry him. Any man that sees your entire sex in so harsh a light has nothing to offer you.
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“Better to be a man and respected like a king, than to be a king respected by no man”
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.
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I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
