Quotes
Quotes about Man
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.
A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware: I would not play her larcenous tricks To have her looks!
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
"Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey."
It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augures and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.
Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
