Best Few Men Quotations
129 Few Men quotes by 109 unique authors
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It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough…
— Shirley Bassey
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
— Charles Dickens
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And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city…
— James Harrington
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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no…
— Harper Lee
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
— James A. Garfield
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The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman…
— Roger Ebert
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Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
— George Jackson
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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy…
— David Ogilvy
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
— George Washington
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in…
— Joseph Conrad
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
— Blaise Pascal
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less…
— C.S. Lewis
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For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second:…
— Truman Capote
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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
— Cornelia Funke
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a…
— Robert Kennedy
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his…
— Homer
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Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
— Carl von Clausewitz
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