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Men Quotes


"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."


"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."


"The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet."


"Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money."


"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."


"Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts."


"I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that."


"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."


"Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair."



"We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations."


"The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me."
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"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
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"A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one."


"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."


"I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman."


"Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?"


"Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?"


"Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead."


"Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration."


"Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war."


"If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men."


"As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting."


"The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men."


"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."


"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."


"There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman."


"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."


"Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it."
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