Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows.
Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength,
he nourishes himself from this fusion,
and then he rises and goes into the world,
into his work, into battle, into art.
He is not lonely. He is busy.
The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion.
The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty.
Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure
in which she has bathed,
and a charge of electric joy at contact with another.
When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled,
each act of love a a taking of man within her,
an act of birth and rebirth, of child-bearing and man-bearing.
Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew
with a desire to act, to BE.
But for woman, the climax is not in the birth,
but in the moment the man rests inside of her.
- Anais Nin
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked
his weight in wild caterpillars?
Afraid? You bet I'm afraid!
- Groucho Marx
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are born believing.
A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It appears to be a law that you cannot have
a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
If it keeps up, man will atrophy
all his limbs but the push-button finger.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
- Stanley Baldwin
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
- Margaret Mead
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
Every man thinks God is on his side.
- Jean Anouilh
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Albert Einstein
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
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