"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

Garrison Keillor, American Writer

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"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Religious

"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken."

Chester A. Arthur, American President

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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

William James, American Philosopher

Man, Men, Ideas

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Man, Men, Doubt

"We are men of action, lies do not become us."

William Goldman, American Novelist

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"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp."

Joan Rivers, American Comedian

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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

Clarence Darrow, American Lawyer

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

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"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."

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"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

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"Don't be consistent but be simply true."

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"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

"We are men of action, lies do not become us."

"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp."

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

"Don't be consistent but be simply true."

"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."