981 private quotes tagged men

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.” — J. Paul Getty

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“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.” — Albert Camus

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“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” — Victor Hugo

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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” — William Shakespeare

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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.” — Confucius

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“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Either war is obsolete, or men are.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” — George Orwell

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“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” — Epictetus

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“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!” — Coco Chanel

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“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.” — Coco Chanel

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“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington

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“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.” — Ansel Adams

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“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” — Buddha

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“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.” — William Shakespeare

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“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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