Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2161.

  • Charles Lamb We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Woodrow Wilson We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Mark Twain We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benedict Arnold We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.
    Letter to General Gates (7 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • Auberon Herbert We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Dickens We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • W. Phillips We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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  • Owen Meredith We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
    Owen Meredith
    British writer, critic and politician (ps. of Edward Bulwer-Lytton) (1802 - 1873)
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  • Salman Rushdie We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Peter de Vries We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Antonin Artaud We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Calvin Coolidge We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
    Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Barbara Lee We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Betty Friedan We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • R. W. Dickson We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
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