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“The great mob of mankind are the admirers and worshippers, and, what may seem more extraordinary, most frequently the disinterested admirers and worshippers, of wealth and greatness.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.”
Quote by -Aesop
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.
Quote by -Zhuangzi
...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.
Quote by -Xenophon
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Quote by -Xenophon
I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
Quote by -Wale
Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.
Quote by -Walker Percy
They said"You have a blue guitar You do not play things as they are". The man replied,"things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar".
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgement of things he could not gracefully utter.
Quote by -Willa Cather
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
Quote by -William Godwin
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
Quote by -William Tecumseh Sherman
Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.
Quote by -Terry Goodkind
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Quote by -Thomas Merton
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
Quote by -Thomas Merton
Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.
Quote by -Tim Allen
All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.
Quote by -Tim Allen