Quotes with men-versus-women

Quotes 21 till 40 of 2712.

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
    - +
    +2
  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
    - +
    +2
  • Georges Bernanos Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
    - +
    +2
  • Oscar Wilde Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
    +2
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
    +2
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
    +2
  • Oscar Wilde Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
    +2
  • Mark Twain Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
    +2
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
    - +
    +2
  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
    - +
    +2
  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
    - +
    +2
  • Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
    - +
    +2
  • Cato the Elder Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
    - +
    +2
  • Abraham Lincoln ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
    - +
    +1
  • Chief Seattle A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
    Speech 1854
    Chief Seattle
    Chief of the Suquamish and Duwanish Indians (1780 - 1866)
    - +
    +1
  • Marguerite Duras A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
    - +
    +1
  • Herbert Spencer A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
    - +
    +1
  • John Updike A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
    - +
    +1
  • Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Camille Paglia A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
    +1
All men-versus-women famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 2)