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Quotes 5341 till 5360 of 10591.

  • Samuel Johnson Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Rebecca West Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Robert Menzies Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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  • Aristophanes Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
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  • Adam Clayton Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Vauvenargues Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Eric Hoffer Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bob Geldof Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Walter Bagehot Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Men will not always die quietly.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Don Delillo Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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