"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."

Frederick Soddy, English Scientist

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"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."

Maxwell Anderson, American Playwright

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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Claudette Colbert, French Actress

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"I've always liked men better than women."

Bette Davis, American Actress

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"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."

Richard Hovey, American Composer

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"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."

Alice Hamilton, American Scientist

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"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"

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"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."

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"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."

"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."

"I've always liked men better than women."

"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."

"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"

Explore more quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."

"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."

"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."

"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."

"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."

"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."