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Men Quotes by Tom Robbins
- Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
- I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
- The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For…
- Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed…
- When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned.…
- The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out…
- The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy…
- In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and…
- Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
- I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for…
- The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
- we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a…
- I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
- The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man.…
- In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times…
- I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned…
- Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
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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