#ge

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#knowledge #truth #men

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. ↗

— John Irving

#transgender #men

Don't let my appearance fool you, Penryn. I am not human. The Daughters of Men are forbidden to Angels. ↗

— Susan Ee

#susan-ee #men

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. ↗

— David Gerrold

#typewriters #men

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#honour #anger

Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds like these To offend, where thou canst not appease? Death is not (wherefore dream'st thou thus?) The son of night and Erebus: Not was of fell Erynnis born On gulfs where Chaos rules forlorn. But sent from God, his presence leaves, To gather home his ripen'd sheaves, To call encumber'd souls away From fleshly bonds to boundless day, (As when the winged hours excited, And summon forth the morning light) And each to convoy to her place Before the Eternal Father's face. ↗

— John Milton

#anger

I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot. ↗

— John Green

#james-bond #men #tom-boy #men

But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#jane-austen #marriage #marriage

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#knowledge #mythology #beauty

But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference. ↗

— John Flanagan

#halt #horace #ranger-s-apprentice #men