Quotes with men-versus-women

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2712.

  • Henry David Thoreau The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
     0
  • Kahlil Gibran The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
    - +
     0
  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Miller The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • John Henry Newman The love of Our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
    - +
     0
  • Charles Baudelaire The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
    - +
     0
  • Edward Dahlberg The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
    - +
     0
  • Alexis de Tocqueville The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • Rebecca West The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Bernard M. Baruch The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Napoleon Hill The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Wyndham Lewis The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
    - +
     0
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
    Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Marguerite Yourcenar The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Riley The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Adelaide Anne Procter The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Graham The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
    - +
     0
All men-versus-women famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 95)