981 private quotes tagged men

“All religions have been made by men.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.” — Alexander Pope

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“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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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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