Quotes with anti-man

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  • Napoleon When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Josh Billings When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Collins When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bob Gibson When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
    Bob Gibson
    American baseball player (1935 - 2020)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Galsworthy When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Junius When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • John Donne When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Mark Twain When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John F. Kennedy When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Browning When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bertrand Russell When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Anthony Holden When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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