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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘men’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.” -Jim Rohn
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“I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them.” -Frank Sinatra
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“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.” -Charles Darwin
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“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Mothers – especially single mothers – are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation’s children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families’ well-being.” -Evan Bayh
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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” -Robert Frost
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“The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‘Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,’ and then they say, ‘Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!’” -Marilyn Monroe
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“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.” -Red Skelton
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“How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?” -Lao Tzu
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“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” -Norman Schwarzkopf
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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.” -Saint Augustine
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“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” -Immanuel Kant
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“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” -Quintus Ennius
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“I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.” -Confucius
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“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Nine men in ten are would be suicides.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” -William Shakespeare
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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.” -Muhammad Ali
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“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.” -Helen Keller
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“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.” -Maya Angelou
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” -Socrates
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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” -George Edward Moore
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“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.” -Dalai Lama
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“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” -Samuel Adams
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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” -Winston Churchill
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” -Buddha
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“Force always attracts men of low morality.” -Albert Einstein
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“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” -Will Rogers
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“When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.” -Benjamin Haydon
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“You can’t keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.” -Heather Locklear
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“I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.” -Shirley Bassey
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“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.” -Martin H. Fischer
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“No nice men are good at getting taxis.” -Katharine Whitehorn
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“Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.” -George William Norris
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“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.” -Clifton Paul Fadiman
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“That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.” -Richard Schickel
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“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” -T. E. Lawrence
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“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.” -Edward Young
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“A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.” -Morris Chestnut
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“Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.” -Zhang Ziyi
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“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.” -Hilaire Belloc
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“I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.” -Justin Timberlake
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“The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.” -Murray Kempton
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“Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.” -Howard Thurman
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“Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.” -Max Lerner
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“Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.” -Charles de Secondat
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“No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.” -Keith Miller
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“Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.” -Anthony Burgess
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“Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.” -Gene Fowler
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“Men should strive to think much and know little.” -Democritus
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“Time takes away the grief of men.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.” -Daniel Webster
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“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.” -Laurence Sterne
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“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.” -Quintilian
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“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.” -Lawrence Durrell
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“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.” -Richard Whately
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“I have always supported measures and principles and not men.” -Davy Crockett
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“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“By nature, men love newfangledness.” -Geoffrey Chaucer
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“Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.” -Heinrich Heine
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“Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They’re not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.” -Eva Herzigova
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“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.” -Moliere
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“Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.” -Dante Alighieri
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“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” -E. B. White
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“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Men won’t read any email from a woman that’s over 200 words long.” -Doug Coupland
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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” -Walter Scott
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“There would be no great men if there were no little ones.” -George Herbert
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“It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.” -Emil Zatopek
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“Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.” -Knute Rockne
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“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.” -Charles Kingsley
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“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.” -Chief Joseph
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” -Jane Austen
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“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.” -George Santayana
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“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.” -Phyllis Diller
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“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.” -Chuck Norris
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” -Anais Nin
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“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” -Francis of Assisi
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