Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

William E. Gladstone

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

William Ernest Henley

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Walter Lippmann

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

William H. Macy

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

William Bell Riley

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

William Gilmore Simms

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

Wendy O. Williams

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Woodrow Wilson

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Yul Brynner

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

Randall Terry

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Samuel Goldwyn

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

Amit Kalantri

A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer.

AainaA-Ridtz

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Alan Paton

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

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