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Men

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. – Abraham Maslow

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. – Epictetus

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. – Stephen Hawking

Men blaspheme what they do not know. – Blaise Pascal

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. – Blaise Pascal

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women. – Jack Nicholson

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. – J. Paul Getty

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. – Edmund Burke

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. – James Madison

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. – Thomas Hobbes

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. – Arthur Schopenhauer

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. – John Quincy Adams

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. – Dorothy Day

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero