Men quotes

Men

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Men are creatures with eight hands.

- Mansfield, Jane

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

- Confucius

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

- Miller, Henry

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

- Quarles, Francis

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

- Tynan, Kenneth

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

- Hugo, Victor

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

- Ostman, Virginia

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

- Morgan, Arthur E.

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The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

- Solanis, Valerie

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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

- Joseph Addison

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

- Whitehorn, Katharine

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The heart will cry out at times, Oh! blissful future! Oh, dreary present! But let us not repine. What is dreary need not be barren. Nothing need be barren to those who view all things in their real light, as links in the great chain of progression both for themselves and for the Universe. To us all Time should seem so full of life: every moment the grave and the father of unnumbered events and designs in heaven and earth, and the mind of our God Himself--all things moving smoothly and surely in spite of apparent checks and disappointments towards the appointed end.

- Letters and Memories. 1844.

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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.

- Alfonso X

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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

- Lippmann, Walter

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Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

- The Book of Joshua 6:21

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

- Elihu Burritt

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

- George Bernard Shaw

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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

- Arthur S. Golden