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Man Quotes


"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
Man,


"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent."
Man,


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


"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."


"Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?"


"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."


"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."


"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."


"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."


"When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"


"It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do."


"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."


"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."


"You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service."


"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."


"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."


"Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men."


"There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks."


"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."


"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."


"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."


"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard."


"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."
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