"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith, English Author

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

Explore more quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

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"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."

"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."

"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."

"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."