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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 18
I've always... tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills (1929-, American opera singer)
There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.
Beverly Sills (1929-, American opera singer)
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons
When the time is right, you just got to do it.
Jack Simplot (American businessman, founder, of J.R. Simplot Corporation)
Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.
Marsha Sinetar (American author, "To Build The Life You Want, Create The Work You Love")
Do what you love, the money will follow.
Marsha Sinetar (American author, "To Build The Life You Want, Create The Work You Love")
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991, Polish-born American journalist, writer)
I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964, British poet)
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904, Scottish author)
Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904, Scottish author)
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
Adam Smith (1723-1790, Scottish economist)
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Alexander Smith (1830-1867, Scottish poet, author)
When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it.
Charles M. Smith
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.
Valerie Solanis
To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
Valerie Solanis
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon (636-558 BC, Greek statesman)
Seize the hour.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
The cliche that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
What we love to do we find time to do.
John Lancaster Spalding
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903, British philosopher)
The three sexes are men, women, and professors.
J. E. Spingarn
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Time never takes time off
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
St. Jerome (c.342-420, Croatian Christian ascetic, scholar)
Dollars cannot buy yesterday.
Admiral Harold R. Stark
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark (1893-1993, British travel writer)
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
Arianna Stassinopoulos (1950-, Greek author)
To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729, British dramatist, essayist, editor)
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)
A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.
Ruthie Stein
Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968, American author)
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)
Come on, come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.
Jim Steinman
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses.
Henri B. Stendhal (1783-1842, French writer)
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.
Henri B. Stendhal (1783-1842, French writer)
Don't serve time, make time serve you
William Sutton
Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
Lynn Swann (1952-, American football player, sports commentator)
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Lord Justice Topes
Blessed are the well-loved; they exude a strength and a joy that others try to struggle through life without.
Millie Tornton
For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
John Winthrop (1588-1649, Puritan, first Governor of Massachusetts)
Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger object there. Very often we look (or converse) with a person, and we see or are aware of only a small sliver of their life and we may think that is all there is. Try to get to know more about the whole person!
Author Unknown
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
True inward quietness... is not vacancy, but stability the steadfastness of a single purpose.
Caroline Stephen
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
James Stephens (1882-1950, Irish poet, author)
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768, British author)
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff-if it sneer, let it sneer.
Lucy Stone
Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
Oliver Stone (1946-, American director, writer, producer)
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002, American businessman, author, founder of Combined Insurance Companies)
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896, American novelist, antislavery campaigner)
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896, American novelist, antislavery campaigner)
The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, "What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?"
Success Magazine (American business magazine)
Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Sufism
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
Charles Swindoll (1934-, American pastor, author)
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.
Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist)
No further evidence is needed to show that "mental illness" is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist)
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117, Roman historian)
Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
The Talmud (BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish archive of oral tradition)
I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.
Ryoko Tamura
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946, American writer)
If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious.
A. B. Zu Tavern
It's not the having, it's the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-, British-born American actress)
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
James Taylor
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
William Cooke Taylor
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
Norman Tebbit (1931-, British statesman)
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit (1931-, British statesman)
Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but as it can become.
John W. Teets (American business executive)
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Sir William Temple (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)
A day may sink or save a realm.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
Either sex alone is half itself.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863, Indian-born British novelist)
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