30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Peter Abelard
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    In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention. Whence when the same thing is done by the same man at different times, by the diversity of his intention, however, his action is now said to be good, now bad.

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  • Author Phillip Adams
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    Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

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  • Author Polly Adler
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    The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

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  • Author Pietro Aretino
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    I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

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  • Author Poul Anderson
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    A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

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  • Author Pietro Aretino
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    What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

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  • Author Poul Anderson
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    He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

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