30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author John Arlott
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    Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

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  • Author John Ashbery
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    Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

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  • Author John James Audubon
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    Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

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  • Author John Aubrey
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    Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.

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  • Author John Quincy Adams
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    Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

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  • Author John Quincy Adams
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    A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

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  • Author John James Audubon
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    I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

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