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Quotes about Men


Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine Almansor

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer [Animal Liberation]

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus Curtis

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche

These are the tries that time men's soles.

Heard at a track and field tryout

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

P.D. James

Warranty and guaranty clauses are voided by payment of the invoice.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bern Williams

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, "Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worth while for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

People who live in windowed environments shouldn't cast pointers.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Richard Haliburton

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

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