MEN QUOTES VI

quotations about men

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, Ajax the Locrian

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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Believe me, the world always was, and always will be the same, as long as men are men.

GEORGE BERKELEY

Alciphron; or, The Minute Philosopher in Seven Dialogues

Tags: George Berkeley


Few women think a man complete without vice.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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No one has any right to be angry with me, if I think fit to enumerate man among the quadrapeds. Man is neither a stone nor a plant, but an animal, for such is his way of living and moving; nor is he a worm, for then he would have only one foot; nor an insect, for then he would have antennae; nor a fish, for he has no fins; nor a bird, for he has no wings. Therefore, he is a quadraped, had a mouth like that of other quadrapeds, and finally four feet, on two of which he goes, and uses the other two for prehensive purposes.

CARL LINNAEUS

Fauna Suecica


Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

MAE WEST

Belle of the Nineties

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The toolmakers had been remade by their own tools. For in using clubs and flints, their hands had developed a dexterity found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, permitting them to make still better tools, which in turn had developed their limbs and brains yet further. It was an accelerating, cumulative process; and at its end was Man.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2001: A Space Odyssey

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They do not believe there can be tears between men. They think we are only playing a game and that we do it to shock them.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate over ideas, he hurls scorn and mockery at another's work, he finds the one way, the true way, for himself, and calls all others false--yet in the billion books upon the shelves there is not one that can tell him how to draw a single fleeting breath in peace and comfort. He makes histories of the universe, he directs the destiny of the nations, but he does not know his own history, and he cannot direct his own destiny with dignity or wisdom for ten consecutive minutes.

THOMAS WOLFE

You Can't Go Home Again

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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Ah, race of mortal men,
How as a thing of nought
I count ye, though ye live;
For who is there of men
That more of blessing knows,
Than just a little while
To seem to prosper well,
And, having seemed, to fall?

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus the King

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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Jo's Boys

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It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

NORA ROBERTS

Happy Ever After

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What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall be man to the Übermensch: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

JULIAN BARNES

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

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From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.

JOHN DRYDEN

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

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If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Religion and Science

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

IMMANUEL KANT

Lectures on Ethics

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Man seems to be made neither to live alone nor with others.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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