He Man Quotes - Page 23

• The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Spring, Men, Weakness

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Men, Poor

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• In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

  Max Lerner

  Money, Hero, Men

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• Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

  Saint Augustine

  Taken, Men, Together

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• The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Men, Differences

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.141, Paulist Press

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• The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Selfish, Men

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• By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

  James Joyce

  Spiritual, Memorable, Men

  "Stephen Hero". Book by James Joyce, 1944.

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• Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Writing, Men

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• The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

  Roger Bannister

  Loss, Men, Goes On

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• Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Feminist, Would Be

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• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, Athlete, Fighting

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• OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.

  Graham Freudenberg

  Memorable, Men, Australia

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• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Stars, War

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• [D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Hands

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy”

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• He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

  Chidananda Saraswati

  Intelligent, Men, Should

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• Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Men, Style

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• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

  Martin Gardner

  Queens, Kings, Teaching

  "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

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• These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Hero, Sacrifice

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• What no woman or man needs is anyone telling them they are 'too fat' or 'too skinny.' That just adds to the many stereotypes out there about a person's weight.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Men, Weight, Skinny

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• Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Beautiful, Men, Dating

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• You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Past, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is impossible to the man who will

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Men, Impossible, Nothing Is Impossible

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• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Past, Men, Possible And Impossible

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd

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• Here's to the man
  Who owns the land
  That bears the grapes
  That makes the wine
  That tastes as good
  As this does.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Men, Land

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