Quotes 141 till 160 of 2712.
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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.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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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.
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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.
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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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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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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.
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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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.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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