Maya Angelou Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , World Quotes

What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men truly have to say: "In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear: "I do not know you!" (Luke 13:26-27). They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment.

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Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

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When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Dream Quotes , Men Quotes

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

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In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Men Quotes , Corn Quotes

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Differences Quotes

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Insulting Quotes

I come from an environment where the men actually say, "Is it OK if I take off my jacket?" in a meeting. Everyone wears suits; it is a very dressed-up world. Even if I wear jeans, I still wear a blazer and jewelry. I think there is something nice about coming to work and dressing nicely.

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Tags : Aerin Lauder Quotes , Nice Quotes , Men Quotes

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Giving Quotes

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Men Quotes

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Party Quotes , Men Quotes

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

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Tags : A. P. Herbert Quotes , Men Quotes , Care Quotes

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

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