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Man Quotes


"For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King."


"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity."



"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"


"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."



"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."


"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."



"'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged."


"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."


"There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it."


"No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next."


"These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam."


"Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people."


"Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion."


"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."



"What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?"



"When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle."



"The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal."



"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you."


"It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory."



"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."


"If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls."


"Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs."


"As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was."
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