"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."

Man, Men, Time, Action

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Man, Men, Women, Beginning

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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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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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"No man loves the bearer of bad tidings."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

Katherine Anne Porter, American Journalist

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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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"Few men have been admired of their familiars."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

Henry Miller, American Author

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"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."

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"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

History

"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

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"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

"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."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"No man loves the bearer of bad tidings."

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

"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

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

"Few men have been admired of their familiars."

"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

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"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."

"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."

"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."

"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."

"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."

"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."

"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me."

"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."