Quotes with men

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 2140.

  • Lord George Byron What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • James Russell Lowell What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bertrand Russell What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Edward Dahlberg What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • C. Wright Mills What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Brendan Behan What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • C. S. Lewis What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Calvin Coolidge What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Dave Barry What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Plato Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Daniel Webster Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Marilyn French Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Helen Rowland When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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