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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a Dream” - 28 August 1963

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“There's daggers in men's smiles.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“We should be men first, and subjects afterward.” Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” - 1849

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget:” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“Therein do men from children nothing differ.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“Men's vows are women's traitors!” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“A true man does what he will, not what he must.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.” Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” - 1849

“Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.” Abraham Lincoln, “State of the Union Address” - 1 December 1862

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.” Aristotle, “Politics”

“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.” Confucius, “Analects”

“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“Teach me to speak the language of men.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“For, all the three years, he had carefully avoided her in consequence of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“In fact my popularity seemed almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.” Jane Austen, “Emma” - 1815

“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains?” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.” Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey” - 1817

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.” Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace” - 1869

“if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“Men should be what they seem.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

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