“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.”
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“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”
“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.”
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
“Force always attracts men of low morality.”
“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
“It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.”
“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.”
“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”
“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”
“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”