195.Quotes On Men-Part 15
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"The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.." -Henry Louis Mencken-
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.".-Henry Louis Mencken
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"Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"It is not work that kills men;it is worry. Work is healthy;you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids;but love and trust are sweet juices".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.".-Herbert Spencer-
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal;While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.".-Herodotus-
"The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.".-Isidore Ducasse Comte De Lautreamont-
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"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.".-Katharine Hepburn-
"The men who make history have not time to write it.".-Klemens Von Metternich-
"Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.".-Lincoln Steffens-
"In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.".-Lord George Byron-
"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.".-Louis D. Brandeis-
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"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.".-Lyndon B. Johnson-
"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.".-Mikhail Bakunin-
"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.".-Napoleon Hill-
"As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.".-Nora Ephron-
"A few honest men are better than numbers.".-Oliver Cromwell-
"'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.".-Omar Khayyam-
"There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.".-Ovid-
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.".-Plato-
"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.".-Plutarch-
"Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"Slavery it is that makes slavery;freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social ob".-Victor Hugo-
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