Men Call Quotes
35 quotes by 31 authors
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.…
— Loren Eiseley
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
— Anatole France
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How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome…
— James Thomas Fields
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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no…
— Ovid
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What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the…
— William Clark
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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
— Lord Byron
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Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.
— J. Vernon McGee
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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the…
— John Ruskin
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only…
— John Lothrop Motley
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Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the…
— John Bunyan
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The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
— Samuel Beckett
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That power Which erring men call Chance.
— John Milton
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I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I…
— Gen Urobuchi
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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
— Mark Twain
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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.
— John Milton
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What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
— Louise Erdrich
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My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
— Sri Aurobindo
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