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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.
Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
We got to stop doing that, ladies. You know, men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.
After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.