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Men Quotes by James Joyce
- When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
- By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.…
- When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail…
- I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I…
- Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
- Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must…
- I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander…
- Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
- A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
- I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust…
- Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But…
- When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I…
- She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in…
- A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
- The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle