#ere

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#first #good #guys #out #place

To demand interest is part of the marriage debt. What man was never guilty of uxory? ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #interest #marriage #usury #uxoriousness

You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought. ↗

— Andrew Hussie

#inspirational #terezi-pyrope #inspirational

خرج جوادٌ من مكانٍ غير معروف حمَلَنا حيثُ ذُقنا هُنا كلُ العِشق وحتى لم نعُد نحيا كذلك، هذا الطَعمُ! خمرٌ، نستقيهِ على الدوام. ↗

— جلال الدين الرومي

#inspirational #life-philosophy #love #lovers #inspirational

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#inspiration #inspirational #motivate #motivation #never-give-up

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. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#double-standards #feminism #gender #history #hypocrisy

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#double-standards #empowerment #expectations #false-belief #feminism

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#men-and-women #men

God crafted men’s eyes and women’s breast from the same material, I’m convinced. Whenever eyes wander toward cleavage, they’re just trying to feel like they’re home. It’s also why breasts always know when they’re being watched. ↗

— Adi Alsaid

#men