I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to ...
When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, a...
What wise men suppose is worth more than the certainties of fools.
When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back.
Men and women are never placed too far apart to be near.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
Prince Feisal: There's nothing further here for a warrior. We drive bargains. Old men's work. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace. And the vices of pea...
In the first place, his startling likeness to Catherine, connected him fearfully with her. That, however, which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least – for what is not connected with her to me? and what doe...
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like mu...
[the Joker has rigged two ferries to explode, one filled with prison inmates, one with ordinary people, giving each ferry one detonator and telling them they have to blow up the other, or he'll blow up both. A prisoner approaches the warden, who's ho...
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
