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Men Quotes


"Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know."


"Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact."


"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."


"It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?"


"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men."


"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."


"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom."


"I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women."


"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state."


"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."


"Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men."


"Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out."
Men,


"The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be."


"Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service."


"I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her."


"It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!"
Men,


"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."


"Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot."


"It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power."


"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making."


"Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."


"I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece."
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