Men Quotes
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."
"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."
"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."
"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"
"You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this."
"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you."
"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."
"When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman."
"It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food."
"Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend."
"A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh."
"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"
"A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen."
"Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn’t see your worth at the moment you met then he won’t two years later. May the halls of Pemberly be filled with his regrets and your life filled with thankfulness because of this revelation."
"As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times."
"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."
"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power."
"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."
"You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!"
"When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror."
"Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him."
"Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly."
"If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers."
"I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."
"I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you."
"Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting."
"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin."
"Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident."
"A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart."
"Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them."
"When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be."
"Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II"
"He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great."
"All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women."
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