Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

Bryant H. McGill

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Chris Abani

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

Carolyn Maloney

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Conan O'Brien

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

D. H. Lawrence

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Erma Bombeck

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

Ferdowsi

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Francois Rabelais

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Georges Duhamel

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Germaine Greer

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Gloria Steinem

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Havelock Ellis

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

Hanna Rosin

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Herman Wouk

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell