A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.
The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
She broke up with me. Didn't really tell me why. Luckily when you're the guy, you can just tell people she's crazy. 'Hey, Tom, I heard you and Lucy broke up. ' 'Yeah, man. Turns out, she's crazy. ' That's what they always do on Entourage.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability. . . I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.
Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.
People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.
What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
An angry man is always a stupid man.
As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.