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Men Quotes by Michael Chabon
- A father is a man who fails every day.
- I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the…
- It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb…
- All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey,…
- In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.
- Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
- And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by…
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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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