#men

I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes. ↗

— Joan Sims

#flirting #romantic-failures #womanly-wiles #men

An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, [Of Mice and Men] will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists...Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen. [Time 1937] ↗

— Time-Life-Books

#men

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#honor #men

There are men and women who are experts in the field of handwriting analysis. They are called graphologists, and they attend graphological schools in order to get their degrees in graphology. You might think that this situation would call for a graphologist, but there are time when an expert's opinion in unnecessary. For instance, if a friend of yours brought you her pet dog, and said she was concerned because it wasn't laying eggs, you would not have to be a veterinarian to tell her that dogs do not lay eggs and so there was nothing to worry about. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#men

…evils are not caused by God; rather, that they are a part of the nature of matter and of mankind; that the period of mortal life is the same from beginning to end, and that because things happen in cycles, what is happening now — evils that is — happened before and will happen again. ↗

— Celsus

#evil-men #philosophy-of-religion #men

BEN: Helpen op een andere manier. Zorgen dat ik 'n middel krijg om... SOFIE: om in te nemen. Zeg ben je nou helemaal... aaaach, je bent in een depressieve bui, het gaat wel weer over. BEN: Nee, dat is het juist, het gaat niet over. En ik verdom het om die hele... om die hele eindfase door te maken. SOFIE: Wie heeft het nou over eindfase? Daar is helemaal geen sprake van. Als je nou ontzettende pijn ha, maar dat heb je niet. Als je zó zwak was dat je niet meer kon bewegen, maar je loopt. Je eet, je drinkt, je lacht, je bent goed bij je hoofd. BEN: Dat is het. Ik wil stoppen op een moment dat ik er nog bèn, als man, als mens, als brein. Een moment waarop ik nog zelf kan beslissen. ↗

— Annie M.G. Schmidt

#men

Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.” Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes. ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#nikolai #sturmhond #men

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#medicine #men #men

Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the recipient of the miracle of life. Only a woman can conceive and nurture this life using her own flesh and blood, and then deliver a living soul into the world. God has bestowed upon her alone a genuine miracle — the creation of life, and the fusing of an eternal soul with mortal flesh. This fact alone establishes the glory of motherhood. Despite the most creative plans of humanist scientists and lawmakers to redefine the sexes, no man will ever conceive and give birth to a child. The fruitful womb is a holy gift given by God to women alone. This is one reason why the office of wife and mother is the highest calling to which a woman can aspire. This is the reason why nations that fear the Lord esteem and protect mothers. They glory in the distinctions between men and women, and attempt to build cultures in which motherhood is honored and protected. ↗

— Douglas W. Phillips

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The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#clothing #conspicuous-consumption #fashion #fashion-industry #tattoo