981 private quotes tagged men

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.” — Oscar Wilde

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

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“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”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

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“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.” — Maya Angelou

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“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.” — William Blake

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“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” — Julius Caesar

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“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” — Plato

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