Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Erica Jong Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Men have become the tools of their trade.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Edmund Burke Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
    Fanny's First Play 85
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • John Stuart Mill Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • William Shakespeare Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Smiles Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Sophocles Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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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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  • Samuel Smiles Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Blaise Pascal Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Francis Bacon Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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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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  • 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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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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