A Quotes
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“All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.”
“All men think they're great kissers. Just like you think you're the only decent driver on the road."
"Maybe, but I am. Amazing kisser. Dangerously amazing. Your panties would, like, disintegrate, I'm such an awesome kisser.”
Source: Making Him Sweat
“All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.”
“All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.”
“All men, to a lesser or greater extent, are cowardice in the presence of wit.”
“All men use that powerful favorite weapon when they want to attract a woman.
It's called "The Cold Shoulder".”
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“All men want their whores to be unhappy.”
Source: The Luminaries
“All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.”
“All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.”
Source: Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
“All men were born brothers, this is the beauty of being.”
“All men were born brothers, this the bond of affection.”
“All men were created by one Maker.”
“All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.”
“All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.”
“All men were made by the Almighty Maker.”
“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”
“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
“All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.”
Source: In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics
“All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.”
“All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.”
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
“All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.”
“All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity. All men must escape at times from the deadly rhythm of their private thoughts. It is part of the process of life among thinking beings.”
Source: The Simple Art of Murder
“All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.”
Source: The Simple Art of Murder
“All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.”
“All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.”
Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political
“All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them”
“All men would be cowards if they could.”
“All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.”
“All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.”
“All men would be tyrants if they could.”
“All men would still really like to own a train set.”
“All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”
“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.”
Source: War and Peace
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”
“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.”
Source: Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive
“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”
Source: The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications
“All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.”
“All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”
Source: Letters
“All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.”
Source: The Physyology of Taste
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
Source: The Invisible Man
“All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.”
“All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.”
“All men, well interrogated, answer well.”