Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- Edward Abbey
Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?'
'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.'
Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?'
'Yes'
He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.
- Joe Abercrombie
Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.
- Aberjhani
Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens.
- Amit Abraham
Great men are almost always bad men.
- John Acton
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.
(Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
- J R R Tolkien
Are you menstruating?
what?
You're angry. Women are often angry when they menstruate. It is the hormones.
- Alex Adams
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
- John Adams
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
- Richard Adams
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.
- Jane Addams
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.
- Lee Child
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
- Harry S Truman
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- James Joyce
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
- James Joyce
Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A women, being female, is naturally subject to monthly bleeding. When a women does not menstruate, she is pregnant. If she is pregnant, she becomes, due to pregnancy, less active for about a year.
- Muammar Al Qaddafi
If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.
- Paulo Coelho
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.
- Paulo Coelho
All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.
- Paulo Coelho
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them
- Paulo Coelho
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
- Paulo Coelho
She Knows three things:
(a) that men are less treacherous than women;
(b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because
they're always mentally undressing her,
(c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in
good trim, you can conquer the world.
- Paulo Coelho
Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.
- Paulo Coelho
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.
- Jodi Picoult
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
- Madeleine Albright
... for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love and Loyalty
If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
- Louisa May Alcott
Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
- Louisa May Alcott
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
- Louisa May Alcott
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
- Louisa May Alcott
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
- Archibald Alexander
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
- Archibald Alexander
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
- Sherman Alexie
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
- Jesse Jackson
Oh, for goodness' sake," yawned Isabelle, "Is he really waking us up at this ungodly hour just to prove his love to you or something? Couldn't he have called? mundane men are such twits."
(Thinking its Simon when the "doorbell" of institute rings)
-Isabelle to Clary, pg.188-
- Cassandra Clare
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud..
- Elizabeth Gilbert
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.
- Ernest Hemingway
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die one it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.
- Ernest Hemingway
All thinking men are atheists.
- Ernest Hemingway
She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.
- Ernest Hemingway
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
- James Allen
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
- John Ruskin
I think men are a beautiful creation.
- Krista Allen
Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.
- Krista Allen
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
- Tim Allen
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
- Tim Allen
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
- Tim Allen
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
- Tim Allen
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
- Woody Allen
Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both.-
- Janet Evanovich
He's hot, Lula said, but he's a pig. All men are pigs.
Do you really believe that?
No but it's a point of view to keep in mind. You don't want to go around thinkin' shit is your fault. Next thing you know, they got you makin' pot roast ad you're cutting up your mastercard.
- Janet Evanovich
Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.
- Janet Evanovich
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
- Stephen Colbert
It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.
- Stephen Colbert
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.
- Pedro Almodovar
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
- Pedro Almodovar
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
- Louis Althusser
It was clear that Mme Danglars was suffering from one of those nervous irritations which women are often unable to explain even to themselves.
- Alexandre Dumas
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
- Alexandre Dumas
...women are never so strong as after their defeat.
- Alexandre Dumas
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
- B R Ambedkar
She returned to the writhing man at Kyle's feet. These women are with me. If you even look at them again, I'll turn your balls into Swiss cheese.
- Debra Anastasia
I think women are excellent social critics.
- Laurie Anderson
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
- Sherwood Anderson
I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
- Tadao Ando
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
- Larry Mcmurtry
Women are sneaky.
- Patricia Briggs
Intelligent men are dangerous.
- Patricia Briggs
Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.
- Patricia Briggs
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
- Barbara De Angelis
Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
- Barbara De Angelis
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- Hermann Hesse
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
- Francesca Annis
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
- Francesca Annis
All men are created equal. Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson and other great men.
- Thomas Jefferson
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- Thomas Aquinas
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
- Diane Arbus
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.
- Jeffrey Archer
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- Plato
Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.
- Lisa Kleypas
Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.
- Lisa Kleypas
I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.
- Lisa Kleypas
...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]
- Meg Cabot
Bad men are full of repentance.
- Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
- Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
- Aristotle
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
- Aristotle
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
- Aristotle
I find that men are far more vain than women.
- Patricia Arquette
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
- Rosanna Arquette
Most men are not that evolved.
- Rosanna Arquette
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.
- Nadeem Aslam
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
- Mary Astell
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
- Mary Astell
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
- Mary Astell
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
- Mary Astell
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
- Dave Attell
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
- David Attenborough
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
- Margaret Atwood
Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace.
- Margaret Atwood
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
- Thomas Carlyle
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
- David Herbert Lawrence
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
- David Herbert Lawrence
...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that..
- Melina Marchetta
Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words.
"That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.
- Melina Marchetta
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.
- W H Auden
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
- Erich Auerbach
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
- Marcus Aurelius
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
- Marcus Aurelius
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
- Sri Aurobindo
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
- Jane Austen
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
- Jane Austen
So you and I are to be left to shift by ourselves, with this poor sick child; and not a creature coming near us all the evening! I knew how it would be. This is always my luck. If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it, and Charles is as bad as any of them.
- Jane Austen
Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going tommorow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
- Jane Austen
I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
- Jane Austen
Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?'
'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.
- Julia Quinn
Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.
-Lady Whistledown
- Julia Quinn
I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.
- Julia Quinn
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
- Hank Azaria
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
- Horace Walpole
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
- Horace Walpole
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are fools.
- P C Cast
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
- Erykah Badu
Some men are born posthumously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand my "Zarathustra": how could I confound myself with those who are now sprouting ears?First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.
- Alice Bag
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
- Walter Bagehot
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
- Walter Bagehot
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
- Rita Rudner
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
- Josephine Baker
Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken.
- R Scott Bakker
You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Outside to call them to harsh accout. One hundred Heavens... for one thousand Hells.
- R Scott Bakker
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
- Mikhail Bakunin
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
- Mikhail Bakunin
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
- George Balanchine
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
- John Burroughs
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
- Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
- Oscar Wilde
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
- Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
- Oscar Wilde
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
- Oscar Wilde
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
- Oscar Wilde
What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.
- Oscar Wilde
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
- George Bancroft
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
- Brigitte Bardot
Men are the scourge of the universe. I say we line them all up along the highway and then mow them down with big trucks. No, wait! Steamrollers! Yeah, let's steamroll them all until they're nothing more than slimy wet spots on the road! (Chrissy)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael)
Thanks, Barney. How's Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron)
Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael)
Nah, they're good women. It's the ones in red who are always the downfall of good men. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You're barely one step up from the Australopithecines, aren't you? (Acheron)
Hey, be respectful when you say that, snot nose. Haven't you seen the commercials? Us cavemen are very sensitive people. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis)
You know better. You've tutored me too well on how vicious women are. On how much love ruins and destroys. Thank you for the lesson, Artemis. It was just what I needed. And I assure you, it's one I'll never forget. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
- Roseanne Barr
So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.
- Majel Barrett
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
- Isaac Barrow
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
- Dave Barry
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
- John Barth
I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
- Karen Bass
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
- Shirley Bassey
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.
- Shirley Bassey
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.
- Charles Baxter
She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales written in books by rabbits - Schmendrick
- Peter S Beagle
As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
- Peter S Beagle
I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
- Jennifer Beals
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
- Ann Beattie
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
- Glenn Beck
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
- Blaise Pascal
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
- Blaise Pascal
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
- Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
- Albert Camus
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
- Albert Camus
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
- Albert Camus
I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
- Kabir Bedi
Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
- Kabir Bedi
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
- Max Beerbohm
The best of men are just men at best.
- Alistair Begg
An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.
- Greg Behrendt
The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.
- Greg Behrendt
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
- L M Montgomery
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Saul Bellow
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
- Monica Bellucci
In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
- John Steinbeck
Thou knowest not what bitches women are," Danny said wisely.
"I do know," said Pilon.
"Thou knowest not."
"I do know."
"Liar.
- John Steinbeck
Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
- John Steinbeck
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles only the winners are remembered. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. 'Thou mayest, Thou mayest!' What glory!
- John Steinbeck
- Edward Abbey
Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?'
'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.'
Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?'
'Yes'
He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.
- Joe Abercrombie
Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.
- Aberjhani
Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens.
- Amit Abraham
Great men are almost always bad men.
- John Acton
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.
(Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
- J R R Tolkien
Are you menstruating?
what?
You're angry. Women are often angry when they menstruate. It is the hormones.
- Alex Adams
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
- John Adams
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
- Richard Adams
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.
- Jane Addams
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.
- Lee Child
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
- Harry S Truman
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- James Joyce
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
- James Joyce
Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A women, being female, is naturally subject to monthly bleeding. When a women does not menstruate, she is pregnant. If she is pregnant, she becomes, due to pregnancy, less active for about a year.
- Muammar Al Qaddafi
If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.
- Paulo Coelho
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.
- Paulo Coelho
All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.
- Paulo Coelho
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them
- Paulo Coelho
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
- Paulo Coelho
She Knows three things:
(a) that men are less treacherous than women;
(b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because
they're always mentally undressing her,
(c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in
good trim, you can conquer the world.
- Paulo Coelho
Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.
- Paulo Coelho
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.
- Jodi Picoult
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
- Madeleine Albright
... for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love and Loyalty
If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
- Louisa May Alcott
Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
- Louisa May Alcott
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
- Louisa May Alcott
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
- Louisa May Alcott
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
- Archibald Alexander
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
- Archibald Alexander
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
- Sherman Alexie
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
- Jesse Jackson
Oh, for goodness' sake," yawned Isabelle, "Is he really waking us up at this ungodly hour just to prove his love to you or something? Couldn't he have called? mundane men are such twits."
(Thinking its Simon when the "doorbell" of institute rings)
-Isabelle to Clary, pg.188-
- Cassandra Clare
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud..
- Elizabeth Gilbert
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.
- Ernest Hemingway
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die one it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.
- Ernest Hemingway
All thinking men are atheists.
- Ernest Hemingway
She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.
- Ernest Hemingway
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
- James Allen
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
- John Ruskin
I think men are a beautiful creation.
- Krista Allen
Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.
- Krista Allen
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
- Tim Allen
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
- Tim Allen
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
- Tim Allen
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
- Tim Allen
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
- Woody Allen
Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both.-
- Janet Evanovich
He's hot, Lula said, but he's a pig. All men are pigs.
Do you really believe that?
No but it's a point of view to keep in mind. You don't want to go around thinkin' shit is your fault. Next thing you know, they got you makin' pot roast ad you're cutting up your mastercard.
- Janet Evanovich
Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.
- Janet Evanovich
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
- Stephen Colbert
It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.
- Stephen Colbert
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.
- Pedro Almodovar
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
- Pedro Almodovar
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
- Louis Althusser
It was clear that Mme Danglars was suffering from one of those nervous irritations which women are often unable to explain even to themselves.
- Alexandre Dumas
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
- Alexandre Dumas
...women are never so strong as after their defeat.
- Alexandre Dumas
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
- B R Ambedkar
She returned to the writhing man at Kyle's feet. These women are with me. If you even look at them again, I'll turn your balls into Swiss cheese.
- Debra Anastasia
I think women are excellent social critics.
- Laurie Anderson
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
- Sherwood Anderson
I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
- Tadao Ando
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
- Larry Mcmurtry
Women are sneaky.
- Patricia Briggs
Intelligent men are dangerous.
- Patricia Briggs
Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.
- Patricia Briggs
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
- Barbara De Angelis
Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
- Barbara De Angelis
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- Hermann Hesse
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
- Francesca Annis
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
- Francesca Annis
All men are created equal. Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson and other great men.
- Thomas Jefferson
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- Thomas Aquinas
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
- Diane Arbus
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.
- Jeffrey Archer
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- Plato
Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.
- Lisa Kleypas
Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.
- Lisa Kleypas
I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.
- Lisa Kleypas
...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]
- Meg Cabot
Bad men are full of repentance.
- Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
- Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
- Aristotle
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
- Aristotle
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
- Aristotle
I find that men are far more vain than women.
- Patricia Arquette
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
- Rosanna Arquette
Most men are not that evolved.
- Rosanna Arquette
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.
- Nadeem Aslam
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
- Mary Astell
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
- Mary Astell
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
- Mary Astell
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
- Mary Astell
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
- Dave Attell
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
- David Attenborough
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
- Margaret Atwood
Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace.
- Margaret Atwood
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
- Thomas Carlyle
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
- David Herbert Lawrence
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
- David Herbert Lawrence
...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that..
- Melina Marchetta
Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words.
"That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.
- Melina Marchetta
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.
- W H Auden
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
- Erich Auerbach
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
- Marcus Aurelius
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
- Marcus Aurelius
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
- Sri Aurobindo
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
- Jane Austen
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
- Jane Austen
So you and I are to be left to shift by ourselves, with this poor sick child; and not a creature coming near us all the evening! I knew how it would be. This is always my luck. If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it, and Charles is as bad as any of them.
- Jane Austen
Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going tommorow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
- Jane Austen
I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
- Jane Austen
Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?'
'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.
- Julia Quinn
Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.
-Lady Whistledown
- Julia Quinn
I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.
- Julia Quinn
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
- Hank Azaria
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
- Horace Walpole
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
- Horace Walpole
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are fools.
- P C Cast
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
- Erykah Badu
Some men are born posthumously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand my "Zarathustra": how could I confound myself with those who are now sprouting ears?First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.
- Alice Bag
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
- Walter Bagehot
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
- Walter Bagehot
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
- Rita Rudner
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
- Josephine Baker
Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken.
- R Scott Bakker
You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Outside to call them to harsh accout. One hundred Heavens... for one thousand Hells.
- R Scott Bakker
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
- Mikhail Bakunin
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
- Mikhail Bakunin
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
- George Balanchine
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
- John Burroughs
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
- Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
- Oscar Wilde
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
- Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
- Oscar Wilde
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
- Oscar Wilde
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
- Oscar Wilde
What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.
- Oscar Wilde
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
- George Bancroft
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
- Brigitte Bardot
Men are the scourge of the universe. I say we line them all up along the highway and then mow them down with big trucks. No, wait! Steamrollers! Yeah, let's steamroll them all until they're nothing more than slimy wet spots on the road! (Chrissy)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael)
Thanks, Barney. How's Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron)
Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael)
Nah, they're good women. It's the ones in red who are always the downfall of good men. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You're barely one step up from the Australopithecines, aren't you? (Acheron)
Hey, be respectful when you say that, snot nose. Haven't you seen the commercials? Us cavemen are very sensitive people. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis)
You know better. You've tutored me too well on how vicious women are. On how much love ruins and destroys. Thank you for the lesson, Artemis. It was just what I needed. And I assure you, it's one I'll never forget. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
- Roseanne Barr
So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.
- Majel Barrett
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
- Isaac Barrow
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
- Dave Barry
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
- John Barth
I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
- Karen Bass
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
- Shirley Bassey
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.
- Shirley Bassey
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.
- Charles Baxter
She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales written in books by rabbits - Schmendrick
- Peter S Beagle
As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
- Peter S Beagle
I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
- Jennifer Beals
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
- Ann Beattie
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
- Glenn Beck
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
- Blaise Pascal
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
- Blaise Pascal
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
- Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
- Albert Camus
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
- Albert Camus
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
- Albert Camus
I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
- Kabir Bedi
Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
- Kabir Bedi
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
- Max Beerbohm
The best of men are just men at best.
- Alistair Begg
An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.
- Greg Behrendt
The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.
- Greg Behrendt
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
- L M Montgomery
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Saul Bellow
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
- Monica Bellucci
In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
- John Steinbeck
Thou knowest not what bitches women are," Danny said wisely.
"I do know," said Pilon.
"Thou knowest not."
"I do know."
"Liar.
- John Steinbeck
Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
- John Steinbeck
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles only the winners are remembered. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. 'Thou mayest, Thou mayest!' What glory!
- John Steinbeck
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