The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.
If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Almásy: I once heard of a captain who wore a patch over a good eye. The men fought harder for him.
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred.
Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but they have different dreams.
When three wise men say you are an ass, bray.
In the absence of honest men, they made my father mayor.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.
Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.
Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The ...
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
