Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • William Hazlitt The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Victor Hugo The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bessie Smith There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Voltaire Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Booker T. Washington We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carolina Herrera We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • William Shakespeare What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Charlotte Whitton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
    Charlotte Whitton
    Canadian feminist and mayor (1896 - 1975)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Francis Bacon Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Brit Morin Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • William Shenstone Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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