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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment
of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror.
As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
- Carl Jung
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
- Stanley Baldwin
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -
look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus
could be intended for enjoyment.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of
that I know will not hurt me.
- Abraham Lincoln
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied,
it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man can never be a woman's equal
in the spirit of selfless service
with which nature has endowed her.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
The woman who can create her own job
is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- Amelia Earhart
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
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