S Quotes
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“Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.”
“Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.”
“Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds
A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
The swell of pity, not to be confined
Within the scanty limits of the mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper
“Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.”
“Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Some men may be unready
for the coming of the genie
who grants three wishes.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Some men might ha’ told the police about it—but I never cared much for them. They’re like kids in a way, always asking questions—most of which you can’t answer.”
“Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.”
“some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.”
“Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.”
Source: Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version
“Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.”
“Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.”
“Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.”
“Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took no notice. I pulled out my revolver and very nearly shot at them, but I thought it wouldn't do any good, as they all had their backs to me so would have thought that anyone hit was hit by a German bullet. If I ran after them my men might think I was running away. So I took my men on!”
“Some men only really begin to like you when they find themselves in your debt.”
Source: Shantaram
“Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.”
“Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.”
“Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.”
“Some men proudly claim to be able to fight with life. However, there was no man who could fight with death for a long time and live. Maybe this man is me sometime in time. But I must let him live today in my heart to set the thief free.”
“Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.”
“Some men’s chests are more buttlike than some women’s butts.”
“Some men’s type is women who have a vagina.”
“Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.”
Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series
“Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'”
“Some men seek a wife for the same reason they seek a bank account – to make withdrawals of love, care, and financial security, without ever making a deposit of respect, commitment, and equality.”
“Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.”
“Some men send me condoms and underpants. I'm not sure what they want.”
“Some men share brotherly love - that of Cain and Abel.”
“Some men, smart men, recognize the value of a good life mate. A partner to share life's sorrows and joys with.”
Source: Tall, Dark & Hungry
“Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Some men so needfully require complication, they find themselves defending their enemies.”
Source: The Instructions
“Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!”
“Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.”
Source: The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments
“Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.”
“Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.”
“Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.”
“Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.”
“Some men think because they're afraid to do.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“Some men think more than they read. Others read more than they think. Those who practice both, grow wise. Those who follow neither, remain ignorant.”
“Some men think more than they read. Others read more than they think. Those who practice both, grow wise. Those who follow neither, remain ignorant.”
~John Leland (1830)”
“Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'”
“Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?”
Source: A Man For All Seasons
“Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.”
Source: Aristotle
“Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.”
“Some men use love as a excuse to leech off women, mistaking dependency for devotion. Financial independence is not a gift to be earned, but a right to be claimed. Stand on your own feet, men, and let love be a mutual support, not a monetary crutch.”
“Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows