30,129 Quotes About Men

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector