Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 901 till 920 of 2161.

  • Confucius Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Barbara Jordan Life is too large to hang out a sign: "For Men Only.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Fred A. Allen Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Burton Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Anita Brookner Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Marquise de Merteuil Like most intellectuals, he is immensely stupid.
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  • Bainbridge Colby Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Charles Churchill Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Horace Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Oswald Spengler Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.
    Oswald Spengler
    German philosopher of history and historian (1880 - 1936)
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  • C. S. Lewis Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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