Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

H. L. Mencken

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

Holly Near

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a lead...

Hakeem Olajuwon

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Heraclitus

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Henry Vaughan

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Imogen Cunningham

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Isaac D'Israeli

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Ian Fleming

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Iris Murdoch

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

Ida Tarbell

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

Luke Evans

I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.

Lena Headey

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

Lord North

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

Lara Stone

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Lysander Spooner

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Lew Wallace