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Men Quotes by James Thurber
- When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
- Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never…
- All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
- Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
- Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
- Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
- I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
- The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers…
- All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
- Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
- Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige…
- Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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