Quotes with men-versus-women

Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2712.

  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Daniel Defoe The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Victoria Billings The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • William Carlos Williams The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Ronald Laing The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Shirley Williams The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Crudup The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Buffalo Bill The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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  • Andrea Dworkin The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Adrienne Rich The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bell Hooks The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
    The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alighieri Dante The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Francis Bacon The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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