191.Quotes On Men-Part 11

"The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.." -Henry Louis Mencken-

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"The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?".-Henry Louis Mencken-

"Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.".-Henry Louis Mencken-

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.".-Henry Louis Mencken

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"The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.".-Henry Miller-

"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

"Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.".-Herbert Clark Hoover-

"What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.".-Hermann Hesse-

"The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.".-Hugh Trevor-Roper-

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"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.".-Jules Renard-

"Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.".-Karl A. Menninger-

"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.".-Kin Hubbard-

"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.".-Leo Tolstoy-

"We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame;however you take it we men are a little breed.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-

"That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.".-Lord Melbourne-

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"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.".-Luigi Pirandello-

"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.".-Mark Twain-

"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest".-Napoleon Bonaparte-

"All brave men love;for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.".-Nathaniel Hawthorne-

"Once we roared like lions for liberty;now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.".-Norman Vincent Peale-

"Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabi".-Oswald Spengler-

"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.".-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.".-Plato-

"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind;that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue;and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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"Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.".-U. Thant-

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