Quotes with men

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2140.

  • Barbra Streisand Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aristotle Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Buffalo Bill Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Emily Dickinson Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Confucius Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anacharsis Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Benjamin Franklin Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Aristophanes Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • William Shakespeare Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Napoleon Hill Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ben Feldman With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting.
    Ben Feldman
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Sir Philip Sidney With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Clarence Darrow With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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