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Manly Quotes (page 212)

Michel de Montaigne quote: "Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea..."
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! Michel de Montaigne
James Stephens quote: "Let the past be content with itself, for man needs..."
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory James Stephens
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. Naomi Wolf
James Ellroy quote: "Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man."
Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man. James Ellroy
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. Karl Pearson
The man who is walled up alive has nothing to lose; the prisoner still has hope. Hope is the leash of submission. When power's boiler is in danger of exploding, it uses its safety-valve to lower the pressure. It seems to change; in fact it only adapts itself and resolves its difficulties. Raoul Vaneigem
I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man. Barack Obama
James Sullivan quote: "Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man."
Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man. James Sullivan
George Bernard Shaw quote: "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible,..."
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can. George Bernard Shaw
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man..."
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. Joyce Carol Oates
Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? Henryk Sienkiewicz
But I could tell thee of other things, Ingls, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man. Ernest Hemingway
The world of things entered your infant mind. To populate that crystal cabinet. Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind. For, once within, corporeal fact could find. A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt. Built there your little microcosm - which yet. Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned. Dead men can live there, and converse with stars: Equator speaks with pole, and night with day; Spirit dissolves the world's material bars -A... Julian Huxley
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he... Stanislaw Lem
Each time I see the Upside-Down Man. Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world. Another time. Another town, Maybe HE is right side up. And I am upside down Shel Silverstein

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