Few Men Quotes
Words on rarity, talent, and the few who rise above the rest.
This collection gathers quotes on how few men truly use their full talent, echoing sentiments on Genius and the rare satisfaction that comes with it. Other lines touch on leadership as a burden only a few are foolish or brave enough to accept.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men...
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It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
There is no article of men's clothing that can make a man look more like a douche than the ascot. There are, however, a few men who can pull it off. Context is everything.
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Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our...
I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Genius Quotes
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the...
