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Men Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
- There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel,…
- What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is…
- Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon,…
- The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near…
- I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
- Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow…
- Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man…
- Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have…
- So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The…
- Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is…
- We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
- Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
- Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
- Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits…
- The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward…
- There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or…
- I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
- A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
- Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.
- Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise…
- The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but…
- What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
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