S Quotes
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“Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.”
Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.”
Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings
“Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.”
“Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.”
“Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.”
“Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.”
“Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.”
Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State
“Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
“Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; they will let everything else fall apart.”
“Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.”
“Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.”
Source: America's Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge's Turkey Hunting Tales
“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”
“Some men are more perfect than others.”
“Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.”
“Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.”
“Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.”
“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.”
“Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.”
“Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.”
“Some men are so willing to know their future,
but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.”
“Some men are terrified by the dark nature of the Moon, but not the Devil. The Devil is afraid of nothing he can fuck. And there’s very little the Devil won’t stick his dick in. He’ll bugger the Priest, orgy with Art, and rape the shit out of Justice. The whole of the Universe is the only hole he won’t try to fill.”
Source: Red Russia
“Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Some men are willing to die for their faith but will not fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. By walking in his steps and through his atonement we can gain the greatest gift of all--eternal life--which is that kind of life of the great Eternal One, our Father in heaven.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat the innocent - and that leaves me disinclined toward kindness.”
Source: Oathbringer
“Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat the innocent - and that leaves me disinclined toward kindness. Some men, as they age, grow wiser. I am not one of those, for wisdom and I have always been at cross-purposes, and I have yet to learn the tongue in which she speaks. Some men, as they age, grow more cynical. I, fortunately, am not one of those. If I were, the very air would warp around me, sucking in all emotion, leaving only scorn.
Other men...other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.”
Source: Oathbringer
“Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.”
“Some men became fathers mainly to show that they are not gay. Some, only to hide the fact that they are.”
“Some men become what they were born for.”
“Some men believe a girl squirting under their touch is a sign of their own sex appeal and machismo. It seems a shame to pee on their parade, but the truth is, the methodical throb of a vibrator in the right place and in the right hands – even your own hand – achieves more consistent results.”
Source: A Girl's Adventures
“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.”
“Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.”
“Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.”
“Some men can be good ' horse whisperers ' and many dogs can be wonderful ' man whisperers '.”
“Some men can be very rude. On the other hand, some clients are absolute angels. One john always brought me a gift every time he came to see me. He brought me a pearl necklace, a ring, a bra or something. But eventually, as much as I really loved all the gifts, he fell in love with me, and he tried to weasel his way into my life. It was too much and I sort of had to 'break up with him."”
“Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.”
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.”
“Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.”
“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“Some men claimed that saying things made them true. Well, many men who said they were rich still died poor. Nox said he was cool, but that sun showed him he was a liar.”
Source: Dustrunner
“Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.”
Source: The Advancement of Learning
“Some men demand such pomp. They cannot accept the end of one era and the commencement of another without an occasion by which to mark it and give it meaning. Laurels must be given, honours and fair titles invented so that they may be bestowed upon favoured generals. Some men need recognition.' The shadows around the Emperor's throne deepened. But beneath the layers of obfuscation, deep within the myriad guises of that singularly unfathomable being, the Lion felt the Emperor behold His firstborn son.
'Some men,' the Emperor continued, 'do not.”
Source: Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First
“Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.”
“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it.”