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Man Quotes


"Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use."



"First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do."


"I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions."


"The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world."


"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."


"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."


"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."


"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization."



"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way."


"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution."



"There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together."


"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."



"I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women."



"Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish."


"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."


"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road."


"I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work."


"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."


"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."


"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."


"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
Man,


"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."


"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."


"I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men."


"A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it."


"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels."



"We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain."


"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
Man,


"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons."
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