Quotes
Quotes about Men
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return,--Get very drunk; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then.
Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear, Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were; And they, so perfect in their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.
I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasureâthe relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Arm of Erin, prove strong, but be gentle as brave, And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save; Not one feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause or the men of the Emerald Isle.
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
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.
Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.
When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy'â I call them 'disease of the week' movies.
