Quotes with x-men

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 2140.

  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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  • Camille Paglia The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Charles Lamb The vices of some men are magnificent.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Susanna Moodie The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
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  • Black Hawk The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
    Source: In: Biography and History of the Indians of North America Surrender speech in 1832
    Black Hawk
     
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  • Machiavelli The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Adam Clarke The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Smiles The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Avicenna The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Miller The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Hazlitt The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Francis Bacon The worst men often give the best advice.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Philip James Bailey The worst men often give the best advice.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • William Butler Yeats The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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