- Nov 07, 2020
Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
- Nov 07, 2020
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020