Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chester Himes

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

Chester A. Arthur

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Cheryl Strayed

When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.

Cheryl Strayed

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

Cherie Blair

Men are never brave, are they?

Cherie Lunghi

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

Cherie Lunghi

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

Cherie Lunghi

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

Cher

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

Cher

It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.

Cher

If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-.

Cher

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

Cher

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.

Cher

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

Cher

My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.

Charlotte Bunch

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body,

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

Charlize Theron

I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.

Charlize Theron

I love fragrance for the pure fact that I think it's something that women utilize in a way to make themselves feel good, and I think this idea that we do it for men or for other people is such a misconception.

Charlize Theron

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.

Charles Lamb

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

Charles Lamb

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

Charles Lamb

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

Charles Lamb

The vices of some men are magnificent.

Charles Lamb

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

Charles Lamb

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Charles Lamb

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.