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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 11
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
It is because of men that women dislike one another.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Men and things each have their proper perspective. To judge some of them rightly, it is necessary to see them at near, while to judge others rightly, we must see them at a distance.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Men only blame vice and praise virtue from the perspective of self-interest.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Most things are praised or condemned only because it is fashionable to praise or condemn them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.
C.R. Lawton
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton (1912-, Canadian poet)
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton (1912-, Canadian poet)
Florida is Gods’ waiting room.
Glenn Le Grice
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
C.S. Lewis
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor)
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The self-interest that is blamed for all our misdeeds should also often be praised for our good deeds.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us -- and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Women for the most part surrender themselves more from weakness than from passion; and by that reason, bold and pushing men succeed better than others, even though they are not so loveable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Women often think they are in love when they are not in love. In actuality, it is the excitement of a love affair, the emotional reaction to sentiment, the natural wish to experience the pleasure of being loved, and the difficulty of saying no, all of which combine to persuade them that they have passion, when all they really have is playfulness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.
Dilys Laing
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R. D. Laing (1927-1989, British psychiatrist)
There is no such "condition" as "schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. Laing (1927-1989, British psychiatrist)
In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.
Alan Lakein (1906-1975, American time management expert, author, trainer)
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
Alan Lakein (1906-1975, American time management expert, author, trainer)
Review our priorities, ask the question: What's the best use of our time right now?
Alan Lakein (1906-1975, American time management expert, author, trainer)
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein (1906-1975, American time management expert, author, trainer)
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse De Lamartine (1790-1869, French poet, statesman, historian)
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834, British essayist, critic)
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988, American Western author)
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864, British poet, essayist)
When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
Jessica Lange (1949-, American actress)
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, "We have done it ourselves."
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of it's future yet to be achieved.
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lewis H. Lapham (1935-, American essayist, editor)
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lewis H. Lapham (1935-, American essayist, editor)
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the cliche that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.
Christopher Lasch (1932-, American historian)
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect Time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
William Law (American merchant)
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says "Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me." And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
Harding Lawrence
The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.
Hilda Lawrence
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Nigel Lawson
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944, Canadian humorist, economist)
The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
Michael LeBoeuf
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz (1951-, American journalist)
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.
Fran Lebowitz (1951-, American journalist)
A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.
Hannah Farnham Lee
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
Ivy Lee (1877-1934, American businessman, consultant, time management expert)
Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow.
Lewis Lehr (1852-1921, American businessman, founder of 3M Company)
I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
Jennifer Jason Leigh (1962-, American actress)
He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.
H. Seton Merriman
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968, American religious writer, poet)
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762, British society figure, letter writer)
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762, British society figure, letter writer)
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
Henry Moore
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924, Russian revolutionary leader)
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924, Russian revolutionary leader)
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner (1902-1992, American author, columnist)
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
Max Lerner (1902-1992, American author, columnist)
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Samuel Levenson
If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
Samuel Levenson
Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.
Leslie Baron Lever
You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
Ada Leverson
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-, French anthropologist)
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963, British academic, writer, Christian apologist)
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment. Damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951, American novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature)
As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957, British author, painter)
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957, British author, painter)
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957, British author, painter)
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799, German physicist, satirist)
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799, German physicist, satirist)
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