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Man Quotes


"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."


"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."


"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."


"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."


"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."


"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."


"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."



"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."


"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."


"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."


"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."


"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."


"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."


"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."


"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."


"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."


"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"


"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
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"A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far."


"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."


"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."


"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."



"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."
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