981 private quotes tagged men

“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.” — Nelson Mandela

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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“Bad men are full of repentance.” — Aristotle

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“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” — Winston Churchill

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“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.” — George Washington

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“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.” — Ayn Rand

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” — Plato

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“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” — Julius Caesar

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” — Francis Bacon

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“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” — Plato

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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Edward Moore

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“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.” — Coco Chanel

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“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad

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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” — Roald Dahl

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“Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.” — Gary Oldman

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“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.” — Aristotle

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