Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Man
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker – all this is in your own hands.
The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker – all this is in your own hands.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
I don't like to lose, man. I think that's where it starts for me. If we're not winning games, then I don't smile too often.
I don’t like to lose, man. I think that’s where it starts for me. If we’re not winning games, then I don’t smile too often.
The two biggest meals of your life you don't have to cook and you don't get to eat. The first you don't eat because no man eats – or cares what he eats – at his wedding. The second you don't eat because, well, no man eats at his funeral, either.
The two biggest meals of your life you don’t have to cook and you don’t get to eat. The first you don’t eat because no man eats – or cares what he eats – at his wedding. The second you don’t eat because, well, no man eats at his funeral, either.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl
People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about Valentine's Day. Just because he doesn't give you a valentine doesn't mean he doesn't love you!
People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn’t give two hooty-hoots about Valentine’s Day. Just because he doesn’t give you a valentine doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you!
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.