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Man Quotes



"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"



"To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition."



"I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night."



"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."



"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
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"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."


"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."


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



"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man."


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



"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense."


"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."


"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it."


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


"A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words."



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


"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."


"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."


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


"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."


"All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise."


"Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are."



"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world."


"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."


"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."


"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing."
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