Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Michael Michele

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.

Samuel Daniel

Men do not weigh the stalk for that it was,When once they find her flower, her glory, pass.

Sathya Baba

Men should try to understand women, and women should try to understand men.

Gloria Steinem

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power

William Shakespeare

Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!

Guy Pearce

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

John Updike

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man....

Karen Armstrong

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

Don Thompson

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

Simone Weil

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Jane Addams

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Jane Addams

What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.

Jane Addams

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Jane Addams

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Jane Addams

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Jane Austen

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

Jane Austen

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

Jane Austen

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Jane Austen

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

Jane Austen

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

Jane Austen

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Jane Austen

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

Jane Austen

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Jane Austen

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

Jane Austen

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

Jane Austen

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Jane Austen

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Jane Austen

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

Jane Austen

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Jane Austen

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.