Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Merle Shain was a Canadian author and journalist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
american-musician employ hands hearts hire men work
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
men perfect
Some men are more perfect than others.
eye men sight
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
men cynical cynicism
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
men perfect use
There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.
men done kind
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.
men advantage one-woman
Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all ...
humility men play
Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.
strong men white
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.
both friendship gift given giver giving goes work
Friendship is the gift that goes on giving and is a gift to both the person given to and to the giver as well. But to really make it work it isn't enough to give to another person, you have also to let them give to you.
american-musician learns
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
again husband marry rich sort
If I were to marry again tomorrow, I wouldtn't give up one friend. I'd take them all with me as a sort of dowry and tell my new husband that he was getting a rich wife.
divorce views grandparent
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.
journey emotional thinking
Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.