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Man Quotes


"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."


"During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service."


"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."


"Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them."


"A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is."


"And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society."


"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."


"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
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"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."


"The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well."


"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."



"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."


"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."



"When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union."


"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."



"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."


"I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president."


"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."


"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."


"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."


"Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth."


"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
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