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Man Quotes


"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"


"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."


"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."


"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."


"If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor."



"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."


"If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married."


"Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are."


"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back."
Man,


"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."


"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."



"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."


"Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis."


"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."



"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."



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


"Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk."


"Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power."


"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."


"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination."



"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."


"The word of man is the most durable of all material."


"When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post."



"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."


"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."
Man,


"When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think."


"The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more."
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