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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 6
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the "breadwinner ethic."
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-, American author, columnist)
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-, American author, columnist)
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-, American author, columnist)
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o'clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-, American author, columnist)
Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
The only way around is through.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
Pricilla Elfrey
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939, British psychologist)
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, an herb most bruised is woman.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone (1809-1888, British liberal Prime Minister, statesman)
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
William E. Gladstone (1809-1888, British liberal Prime Minister, statesman)
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists -- talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The less government we have the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Nathaniel Emmons
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
Adam C. Engst
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
Ted W. Engstrom (American religion and social leader)
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
Evan Esar
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
Marie E. Eschenbach
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
Fred Estabrook
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
George Fabricius (1678-1707, Irish dramatist)
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Susan Faludi
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)
If we only knew the real value of a day.
Joseph Farrell
I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!"
Tom Fatjo (American businessman, founder of Browning-Ferris Industries)
We all find time to do what we really want to do.
William Feather (1888-19, American writer, businessman)
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
William Feather (1888-19, American writer, businessman)
One does not become a guru by accident.
James Fenton (1949-, British poet, critic)
I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.
Lisa Fernandez
The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.
Linda Festa
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.
Charles Field
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.
Franklin Field
They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.
Kate Field
I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
Marshall Field (1834-1906, American merchant)
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field (1946-, American actress)
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754, British novelist, dramatist)
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
Debbi Fields
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?
Eva Figes
The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.
Robert M. Fine
When we become a part of anything, it becomes a part of us.
David Harold Fink
To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.
John Huston Finley (1904-1995, American classicist)
The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
Marshall Fishwick (1923-, American writer)
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, American writer) Author's website: www.fitzgeraldsociety.org
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948, American writer)
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948, American writer)
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