man quotes about women

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer



Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. ~Napoleon I



Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~W. Somerset Maugham



Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anais Nin



Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce



The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen



Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah More (Thanks, Steven)



Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. ~Martin H. Fischer



You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem. ~William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator, New York Times, 30 November 1988



The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891



You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. ~Walter Lippmann



I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain



It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. ~A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters, 1919



I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things. ~Dorothy Parker



After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. ~Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs," printed in The National Review (London, 1895) (Thanks, Mark)



Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost



I live my daydreams in music. ~Albert Einstein



It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ~John Stuart Mill



Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb