- 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
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020