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Men Quotes by Robertson Davies
- What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
- When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
- The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
- Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
- The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly…
- The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins…
- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by…
- It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a…
- If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
- Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I…
- A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
- That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would…
- Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.
- Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a…
- I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I…
- A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because…
- To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the…
- The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole…
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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
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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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