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Men Quotes by James A. Michener
- As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned…
- I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to…
- I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
- No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
- . . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if…
- Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or…
- For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they…
- They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
- I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who…
- These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game…
- When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.
- If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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