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If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.
What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.