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Homosapien Commentary A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. Alexander Smith Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition. A man is as old as he's feeling; a woman as old as she looks. Mortimer Collins Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katherine Hepburn Real women don't have hot flashes, they have power surges. There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow humans. Lou Holtz Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes. A wise man knows everything, a shrewd man, everybody. I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian. A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back. Edgar Watson Howe Men play the game. Women know the score. Roger Waddis A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling Few women admit their age; fewer men act it. Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. Samuel Butler After years of effort, women have won the right to be taken more seriously than they deserve. Stanley Bing Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. Do not ask her why she needs to be so free ... She's gonna tell you it's the only way to be. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. Samuel Johnson If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. Benjamin Franklin If you keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. Rudyard Kipling No man is a hero to his valet. Anne Bigot de Cornuel Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain One-seventh of your life is spent on Monday. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahil Gilbran Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, simplify! Henry David Thoreau The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. Cicero Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot The ignorant marvel at the exceptional; the wise marvel at the common. G.D. Boardman Whoso would be man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Edward John Phelps Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? Holbrook Jackson She dwells with Beauty, Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu. John Keats There are two way's of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T. Washington Our venom poisons ourselves more than our victims. Charles Buxton We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. La Rochefoucauld There is a paradox in pride: it makes some to be ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. C. C. Colton What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself. Henrik Ibsen There is no other purgatory but a woman. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. Barry Goldwater Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile and transitory? They are so, and they and we go very well together. Santayana If Mother Nature intended for us to speak more than we hear, we would have been given two mouths and one ear. To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the world. Frank Hebert Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. A gentleman is someone who can argue in a nice manner. The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group. Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras Miss; n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh. Ambrose Bierce Never appeal to a man's "better nature" He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. Lazarus Long The rise of women's liberation directly correlates to the demise of men's responsibility. Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. Eric Hoffer If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. Yousuf Karsh Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and putting one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Goethe We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel. Estelle Ramey There is so much good in the worst of us, so much bad in the best of us, it ill becomes any of us to find fault with the rest of us. Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Edmund Burke I'm a bitch, but I ain't satan. Emily Roberts None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. John Milton The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all. Oscar Wilde My advice to girls: First, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess. Mark Twain That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. John Stuart Mill It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap. Goethe Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak. Shakespeare Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War. Rudyard Kipling Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H.L. Mencken I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. Samuel Johnson Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. George Moore The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work down through a million graves. Ambrose Bierce A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five pound bank note. Their entrance into a room is as though another candle has been lighted. Robert Louis Stevenson Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Tagore We may fairly judge the civilization of any race by the way it has treated, and is treating, its women. Dr. Charles W. Elliot The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Rebecca West Never underestimate the power of a woman. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. Women do not like timid men. Cats do not like prudent mice. H.L. Mencken Churchill's commentary on man - Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. The life of a shop-girl or a motor-man might be as profoundly interesting as that of a saint or a hero, might even prove to be that of a saint or a hero, if we could get at it. Gamaliel Bradford Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. Oscar Wilde There is no more absurd folly than the insistence that all men are born equal or can ever become equal. Gamaliel Bradford A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry. Lord Chesterfield Women who insist upon having the same options as men should consider the option of being the strong, silent type. Fran Lebowitz Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried. Henry David Thoreau Women should be obscene and not heard. Groucho Marx A gentleman blames himself, while a common man blames others. Confucius Ordinary people think merely of spending time, a man of any brains of using it. Schopenhauer Nice guys finish last. Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and - crowning injury - inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. Paul Valery Humans aren't fools, we will not destroy everything; we must leave our traditions to the generations. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of these diseases is man. Frederich Nietzsche Great men undertake great things because they are great, fools because they think them easy. Vaucenargues Women's libbers have a broad view. Man has his will ... but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we are toward the defects of others. Fenelon Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. H.L. Mencken Whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on our course. Fenelon Our primary education is controlled by women, our social life exists for women, our literature is adapted to women, our manners are dictated by women, our earnings are spent by women. Gamaliel Bradford Nothing will make us so tender to the faults of others, as to thoroughly know our own. Fenelon Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one other. H.L. Mencken No man would dare say a bad word against Mother's Day in public, or a good word for it in private. Alistair Cooke Self-actualization is impossible for the perfectionist. Prentice Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart. Confucius Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/whomco.html |