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Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
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Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
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Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
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.
- The Buddha
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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