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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 5
I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.
Richard Crossman (1907-1974, British writer, editor, socialist)
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.
John Crowne
I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
Javier Perez De Cuellar
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William Curtis (1824-1892, American journalist)
Men wrongly complain of Experience. With great abuse, they accuse her of leading them astray. But they actually set experience aside, turning from it with complaints as to our ignorance, causing us to be carried away by vain and foolish desires to promise ourselves, in her name, things that are not in her power; and saying that she is deceptive. Men are unjust in complaining of innocent Experience, constantly accusing her of error and of false evidence.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
The water you touch in a river is the last of what has passed, and the first of what is coming. Thus, it is with present time.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989, Spanish painter)
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
Frank Dane
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882, British naturalist)
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
William Davenant
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter, it's the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies (1913-1995, Canadian novelist, journalist)
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis (1908-1989, American actress, producer)
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
Evan Davis
We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
Dabney J. Day
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day (1924-, American singer, film actress)
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
Daniel Defoe (1661-1731, British author)
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Thomas Dekker (1572-1632, British playwright)
We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863, French artist)
Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
Don Delillo (1926-, American author)
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Daniel Dennett
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.
Lord Denning
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
Chauncey Depew (1834-1928, American lawyer, businessman, public official)
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai (1896-1995, Indian statesman, Prime Minister)
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
Helene Deutsch (1884-1982, American psychiatrist)
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey (1859-1952, American philosopher, educator)
We often make people pay dearly for what we think we give them.
Comtesse Diane
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
I do not know the American gentleman. God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)
Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784, French philosopher)
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784, French philosopher)
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992, German-born American film actor)
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992, German-born American film actor)
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992, German-born American film actor)
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
Annie Dillard (1945-, American author, poet)
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth -- fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.
Annie Dillard (1945-, American author, poet)
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
Isak Dinesen (1885-1962, American author)
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
Isak Dinesen (1885-1962, American author)
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Diogenes of Sinope (c.410-320 BC, Cynic philosopher)
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes (3rd century Greek philosopher, writer,)
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Christian Dior (1905-1957, French fashion designer)
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney (1901-1966, American artist, film producer)
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Austin Dobson (1840-1921, British author)
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Mack R. Douglas
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Colette Dowling
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Happy the man, and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who, secure within, can say "Tomorrow, do thy worst For I have lived today."
John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Rene Dubos (1901-1982, French-born American bacteriologist)
Reverence for nature is compatible with willingness to accept responsibility for a creative stewardship of the earth.
Rene Dubos (1901-1982, French-born American bacteriologist)
The principle of neutrality... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
John Foster Dulles (1888-1959, American republican secretary of state)
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Alexandre (the Younger) Dumas (1824-1895, French writer)
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
William J. Durant (1885-1981, American historian, essayist)
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
William J. Durant (1885-1981, American historian, essayist)
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990, British author)
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-, American feminist critic)
Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-, American feminist critic)
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-, American feminist critic)
Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-, American feminist critic)
If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is."
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
Softly and kindly remind yourself, "I cannot own anything." It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.
Henry Van Dyke (1852--1933, American protestant clergyman and writer)
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Bob Dylan (1941-, American musician, singer, songwriter)
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
Gerald Early (1952-, American author)
You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt (1952-, American race car driver)
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
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