When Men Quotes
245 quotes by 194 authors
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
— John Ruskin
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I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than…
— Norbert Wiener
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
— Thomas Paine
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When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the…
— Thomas Sprat
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Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
— Anton Chekhov
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they…
— Erica Jong
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When men are employed they are best contented.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When…
— James Madison
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
— Walter Lippmann
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I…
— Rachael Ray
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We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When men break up they want to remain friends. Why? Why can't they just get lost?
— Rita Rudner
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When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do…
— Epictetus
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I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their…
— Ayn Rand
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