“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.”
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.”
“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”
“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.”
“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.”
“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”
“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
“Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.”
“Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.”
“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.”
“All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”
“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.”
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
“Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.”