Men - Quotes
Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of one.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
When all men lift the horn of plenty
in one happy equality,
when all men have an equal station
at the table of justice, and, see
the spiritual light break shining
through the windows of every house
then we can say, no more wandering,
Canaan is here, let us rejoice!
To mortal eyes, you, Hope, do seem
a form divinely sweet;
but eyes of gods can pierce the dream
and see your blind deceit.
Unhappy men in times of ill
create you for their easing;
and as their Guardian Angel still
they worship without ceasing.
Why do you flatter me with praise?
Why do you then deride me?
Why in my bosom do you raise
a dubious heart to chide me?
Stay far and fair beyond my reach,
as first my soul you greeted!
I had depended on your speech,
but you have ever cheated.
God [...] made men and women smart enough to land on the moon but stupid enough to have to learn there was no such thing as forever.