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There isn’t going to be a ‘next lover,’” Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. “I’m the only man she’s going to have.
I love a guy that can be emotional and get in touch with his feminine side. It's really sweet. It says a lot about a man to me.
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)
He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.
We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.
As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.