— Thomas Carlyle"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."
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— Camille Paglia"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."
— Victor Hugo"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
— Alexis de Tocqueville"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
— Martin Luther"I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
— Blaise Pascal"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
— Katharine Hepburn"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."
— George Bernard Shaw"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."
— George Bernard Shaw"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none."
— Henry David Thoreau"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
— George Bernard Shaw"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
— Buddha"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
— George Orwell"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
— Clarence Darrow"I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
— Samuel Butler"Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know."
— Elizabeth Edwards"I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me."
— Doris Lessing"I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married."
— Drew Barrymore"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."