Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

A. J. P. Taylor

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Pindar

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

David Livingstone

The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

Edward McKendree Bounds

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Edward Everett

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

Charlotte Casiraghi

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

C. L. R. James

I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.

Jackee Harry

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole lot less fear of each other.

Elisabeth Elliot

Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

John Johnson

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

James A. Michener

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

James A. Michener

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

John H. Reagan

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

Kate Fox

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

Ken Lucas

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Kate Millett

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

Andrew Cohen