"We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Men Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Influence Quotes

“I haven't shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!”
“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”

Source : "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.
“The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.”
“You can observe a lot by just watching.”

Source : Quoted in Dick Schaap and Mort Gerberg's Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor Reflections (p. 185)
“Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.”
“Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.”
“I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.”
“We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.”

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