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Men Quotes


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


"Men have two ways of righting their wrongs, by force and by the ballot. Both are denied to women, one by nature, the other by man."


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


"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."


"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."


"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."


"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."


"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."


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



"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."


"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."


"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."


"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."


"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."


"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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