#wi

If anybody does marry you it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#lord-peter-wimsey #marriage #strong-poison #marriage

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#divorce #husband #marriage #problems #wife

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#midwifery #poppin-out-babies #men

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#wisdom #men

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#aristotle #examining #fewer #him #his

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#antagonistic #discernment #foolishness #insecure #insecurity

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?" It was a serious question, and Eragon considered it for a reasonable span before he ventured to say, "Determination." Oromis tore the loaf in half with his long white fingers. "I can understand why you arrived at that conclusion-determination has served you well in your adventures-but no. I meant the tool most necessary to choose the best course of action in any given situation. Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. So, no, determination cannot be what we're looking for. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#prescient #profound #wisdom #men

When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today. ↗

— Patrick O'Donnell

#joyce-shaughnessy-research #wwii #men

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#free-will #men #sin #men

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#dinosaurs #dragons #impossible #wisdom #men