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1 " Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. "
― Joseph Heller
2 " Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain." Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table." It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. " I did not lead a very wise life myself but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come to age very often through shipwreck and disaster, and at the heart of the whirlpool some men find God. "
3 " Bburke used to, whenever he went to the city to catch a Yankees game, throw his money around to every homeless man on the street, feeling it was the right thing to do; except one time he did that and he got to the stadium and realized he didn’t have enough money for the Bud Light tall boy he always got during the third inning. And in him he felt an unyielding rise of contempt for the himself of only hours ago, that he was something and now is something and that they aren’t the same somethings. But that the change was Barmecidal and it was just him, this moneyless and beerless man in the bleachers. Man made in God’s image, yet some men are homeless and some are beerless, and there must be this big bearded guy miles and miles in the sky who doesn’t have a home and can’t even catch a buzz. "
― A.J. Smith , Growth
4 " In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.-Kikyo "
― Rumiko Takahashi
5 " A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy "
― John Irving , A Prayer for Owen Meany
6 " Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. "
― Thomas Malory , Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
7 " You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo "
― Mario Puzo , The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
8 " Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. "
― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird
9 " I am a diamond in the rut. A diamond to an untrained eye looks like a rock stone. So men will kick it around on the ground. It takes a man with an expert eye for fine Jewelry to notice its worth. Do not feel bad when men treat you like the little boys in Africa who gave away stones in exchange for candy. The hungry boys thought they were getting something better but had exchange wealth for a sugar high. Some men will do that. Exchange a valuable woman for the transient high of another. The boys didn't know better and so do some of these men. They don't know your worth. "
― Crystal Evans ,
10 " Odysseus inclines his head. " True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. " We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. " Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you. "
11 " The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. "
― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
12 " And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. People’s lives were saved because of what those voices told her. "
― Meg Cabot , Insatiable (Insatiable, #1)
13 " Some men borrow books some men steal books and others beg presentation copies from the author. "
14 " There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the " nice" man who is always smiling and agreeable. " Such a nice man," people say. " He never gets angry." The facade always covers its opposite expression. Inside, such a person is full of rage that he dares not acknowledge or show. Some men put up a tough exterior to hide a very sensitive, childlike quality. Even failure can be a role. Many masochistic characters engage in the game of failure to cover an inner feeling of superiority. An outward show of superiority could bring down on them the jealous wrath of the father and the threat of castration. As long as they act like failures they can retain some sexuality, since they are not a threat to her father. "
15 " Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Lectures to My Students
16 " Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion. "
― Auberon Herbert
17 " Do not consider Collectivists as " sincere but deluded idealists" . The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not " idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to " do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. "
18 " Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Variable Star
19 " He stopped at the gate on his way back to the temple, where Gracilis, the Twentieth’s hard-case wolf hunter from the Campanian mountains, was supervising the strengthening of the defences.‘Take some men and tear down the huts along the west wall. And while you’re at it, clear everything for a javelin throw in front of this gate. I want a killing ground from there to about there.’Gracilis grinned and saluted. Like all legionaries, the only thing he liked better than fighting and drinking was destroying someone else’s property. ‘Should we burn them, sir?’ he said hopefully. Valerius shook his head. No point in creating smoke to warn the enemy. ‘Just break them up and add them to the barriers. "
20 " The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
