981 private quotes tagged men

“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.” — Jay Leno

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“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.” — Pythagoras

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“Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.” — Honore de Balzac

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“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” — Herodotus

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“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” — Frederick Douglass

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“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.” — George Jean Nathan

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“I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.” — Richard Wagner

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“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” — Ernest Gaines

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“Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” — Walter Lippmann

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“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.” — Ezra Pound

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“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.” — Isaiah Berlin

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“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.” — John Ruskin

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“If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.” — David Hilbert

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“Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.” — Rita Rudner

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“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.” — Loretta Lynn

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“One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.” — Marilyn Monroe

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