197.Quotes On Men-Part 17
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"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.." -Henry Louis Mencken-
"There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest.".-Henry Louis Mencken
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"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.".-Herman Melville-
"I teach that all men are mad.".-Horace-
"It takes two men to make a brother.".-Israel Zangwill-
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"Attitudes are more important than facts.".-Karl A. Menninger-
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.".-Katharine Hepburn-
"He who gains a victory over other men is strong;but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.".-Lao-Tzu-
"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.".-Lord George Byron-
"Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.".-Louis Menand-
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.".-Margot Asquith-
"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.".-Nancy Astor-
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.".-Napoleon Hill-
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.".-Norman Mailer-
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.".-Oscar Wilde-
"What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not;old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.".-Phillips Brooks-
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.".-Plato-
"A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.".-Virginia Woolf-
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