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Men Quotes by Joseph Heller
- The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
- If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.
- A man's head is his castle.
- He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
- Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and…
- Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.' Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.' And anything worth dying for,'…
- Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden…
- So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure…
- Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.…
- Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was…
- Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can…
- History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it.…
- You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat…
- The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with…
- Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it,…
- All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
- Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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