30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Bertolt Brecht
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    A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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  • Author Bertolt Brecht
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    One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

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  • Author Beryl Bainbridge
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    There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

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  • Author Bertolt Brecht
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    Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

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  • Author Bertolt Brecht
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    A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

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  • Author Bertolt Brecht
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    Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

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