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Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
— Lord Byron
We arc the miracle of miracles  the great inscrutable mystery of God.
— Thomas Carlyle
Every man is a volume  if you know how to read them.
— William Ellery Channing
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race  and finish the farce.
— S. L. Clemens
I am made all things to all men.
— Bible
The first man is of the earth  earthy.
— Bible
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
— John Dryden
Man wants but little here below  Nor wants that little long.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps  for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are  and what they ought to be.
— William Hazlitt
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul  a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
— William Faulkner
God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds  great hearts  true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill  Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy  Men who possess opinions and a will  Men who love honor  men who cannot lie.
— J. G. Holland
Man passes away  his name perishes from record and recollection  his history is as a tale that is told  and his very monument becomes a ruin.
— Washington Irving
Cease ye from man  whose breath is in his nostrils.
— Bible
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you  If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you  But make allowance for their doubting too  Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it  And - which is more - you'll be a man  my son!
— Rudyard Kipling
Man that is born of a woman is of few days  and full of trouble.
— Bible
Though I've belted you and flayed you  By the livin' Gawd that made you  You're a better man than I am  Gunga Din.
— Rudyard Kipling
Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.
— Rudyard Kipling
It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.
— La Rochefoucauld
Men  in general  are but great great children.
— Napoleon
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's the bad child of the universe.
— James Oppenheim
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent  but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
— Philemon
We must laugh at man  to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon
Know then thyself  presume not God to scan  The proper study of mankind is man.
— Alexander Pope
Man is the measure of all things.
— Protagoras
Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.
— Bible
Mark the perfect man  and behold the upright.
— Bible
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
— F. D. Roosevelt
Quit yourselves like men.
— Bible
A man after his own heart.
— Bible
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And  yet  to me  what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no  nor woman neidier  though by your smiling  you seem to say so.
— William Shakespeare
Man is a social animal.
— Seneca
His life was gentle  and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up  And say to all the world  This was a man!
— William Shakespeare
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
— Lord Byron
Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.
— Lord Chatham
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
— Lord Chesterfield
Men make laws  women make manners.
— De Segur
They asked Lucman  the fabulist  From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.
— Sadi
What once were vices are now manners.
— Seneca
Politeness goes far  yet costs nothing.
— Samuel Smiles
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy  is the best bred in the company.
— Jonathan Swift
Suit your manner to the man.
— Terence
I'm an extinct volcano.
— Nancy Lady Astor
A husband is what is left of a lover  after the nerve has been extracted.
— Helen Rowland
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
— Portuguese proverb
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
— Erica Jong
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me  for she never speaks well of me herself  nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.
— William Congreve
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Marriage has many pains  but celibacy has no pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
Married women are kept women  and they are beginning to find it out.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
— Langdon Mitchell
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
— Isaac Disraeli
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.
— Archie Bunker
There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
— Adela Rogers St. John
When a man opens the car door for his wife  it's either a new car or a new wife.
— Prince Philip
You can bear your own faults  and why not a fault in your wife?
— Benjamin Franklin
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
— Bible
Marriage is our last  best chance to grow up.
— Joseph Barth
As a general thing  people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
— Robertson Davies
Marriage is the deep  deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.
— Mrs. Patrick Campbell
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist  a wonderful living side by side can grow up  if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife  he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
— Samuel Johnson
Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads  hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.
— Simone Signoret
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
— Kathleen Norris
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.
— Russell Green
A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
— Anton Chekhov
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell  it is simply purgatory.
— Abraham Lincoln
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant  of a teacher and a learner.
— John Updike
Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is a radicalism in all getting  and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical  while marriage is conservative.
— Eric Hoffer
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
— J. Ogden Armour
His designs were strictly honourable  as the phrase is: that is  to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
— Henry Fielding
If thee marries for money  thee surely will earn it.
— Ezra Bowen
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way  and the other  to let her have it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
— Will Cuppy
A simple enough pleasure  surely  to have breakfast alone with one's husband  but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Marriages would in general be as happy  and often more so  if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.
— Samuel Johnson
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
— Richard J. Needham
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.
— Sacha Guitry
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room  board  and love -except the housewife.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
— Finley Peter Dunne
A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.
— Anonymous
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.
— Spanish proverb
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
— Chinese proverb
Seldom  or perhaps never  does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises  there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
— Carl Jung
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning  a parrot that swears all afternoon  and a cat that comes home late at night.
— Marie Corelli
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
— Kahlil Gibran
Any marriage  happy or unhappy  is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance  however passionate.
— W. H. Auden
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
— M. M. Musselman
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
— Honore de Balzac
Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Marriage  n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master  a mistress  and two slaves  making  in all  two.
— Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is a great institution  and no family should be without it.
— Channing Pollock
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.
— Duane Dewel
No matter how happily a woman may be married  it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
— H. L. Mencken
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
— Langdon Mitchell
I married beneath me - all women do.
— Nancy Lady Astor
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
— Groucho Marx
A good husband should always bore his wife.
— Fred Jacob
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband  weighed him and settled him in her own mind  and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
— Charles Warner
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage  you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment  but it is the better alternative.
— Fannie Hurst
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
— Anonymous
It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
— Arab proverb
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune  for they are impediments to great enterprises  either of virtue or mischief.
— Sir Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
— Sir Francis Bacon
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
— Honore de Balzac
With this ring I thee wed  with my body I thee worship  and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
— Bible
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure  Marry'd in hast  we may repent at leisure.
— William Congreve
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
— Danish proverb
To marry once is a duty  twice a folly  thrice is madness.
— Dutch proverb
There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage  and marriage is the sunset of love."
— De Finod
Every woman should marry - and no man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Is not marriage an open question  when it is alleged  from the beginning of the world  that such as are in the institution wish to get out  and such as are out wish to get in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there's marriage without love  there will be love without marriage.
— Benjamin Franklin
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage  and half shut afterward.
— Thomas Fuller
It is not good that the man should be alone.
— Bible
Bone of my bones  and flesh of my flesh.
— Bible
Weeping bride  laughing wife  laughing bride  weeping wife.
— German proverb
Matrimony  - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
— Heinrich Heine
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
— Henrik Ibsen
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
— Andrew Jackson
What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.
— Matthew
Something old  something new  Something borrowed  something blue.
— Old English Rhyme
If thou wouldst marry wisely  marry thine equal.
— Ovid
The woman cries before the wedding  the man afterward.
— Polish proverb
A prudent wife is from the Lord.
— Bible
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty  and women their happiness.
— Bible
Men are April when they woo  December when they wed  maids are May when they are maids  but the sky changes when they are wives.
— William Shakespeare
The whole world is strewn with snares  traps  gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
— George Bernard Shaw
Marriages are made in Heaven.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
Remember  it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
— William Thackeray
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
— Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired  women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
— Oscar Wilde
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people  is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
— Kenneth Koch
Be content with what you are  and wish not change  not dread your last day  not long for it.
— Martial
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
— Tobias Wolff
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
— Bible
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
— Hindustani proverb
Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
— Doris Lessing
A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.
— Gordon Wallport
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
— Leo Baeck
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry  no longer'  'I'm sorry  not yet.'
— W. H. Auden
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
— John Finley
I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
— Peggy Cahn
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard  but by attacking  and getting well hammered yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
— Andre Gide
Grow up  and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.
— Virginia Woolf
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
— Samuel Johnson
Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.
— Haven Emerson
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis  but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
— Mother Teresa
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides  the job is taken.
— Bernie S. Siegel
Don't defy the diagnosis  try to defy the verdict.
— Norman Cousins
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.
— Norman Cousins
Sickness is felt  but health not at all.
— Thomas Fuller
The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.
— David Kline
To cure sometimes  to relieve often  to comfort always.
— Anonymous
Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.
— Larry Adler
What some call health  if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet  isn't much better than tedious disease.
— George Dennison Prentice
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
— William Osier
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
— William Osier
The doctor  if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage  may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.
— Herbert Ratner
God heals  and the doctor takes the fees.
— Benjamin Franklin
The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.
— Jerome Tarshis
If men could get pregnant  abortion would be a sacrament.
— Florynce Kennedy
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
— Ronald Reagan
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes  but to get in accord with them  they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.
— Sigmund Freud
The body never lies.
— Martha Graham
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest  it seems  is an interest in life  good  bad or peculiar.
— Grace Paley
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
— Arthur Adamov
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
— Peter Latham
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering  and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering  but only prolongs life  that treatment should be stopped.
— Christian Barnard
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live  a physician will be made fun of  but he will be well paid.
— Jean de la Bruyere
After dinner  rest a while  after supper walk a mile.
— Arabic proverb
Imprisoned in every fat man  a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
— Cyril Connolly
Wherever a doctor cannot do good  he must be kept from doing harm.
— Hippocrates
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
— Abraham Flexner
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art  the practice of surgery a plumber's.
— Martin H. Fisher
Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery  in which from time to time he goes to pray  a cemetery of bitterness and regret  of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.
— Rend Leriche
Symptoms  then  are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.
— Jean-Martin Charcot
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
— John Donne
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
— Florence Nightingale
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
— Publilius Syrus
Sickness is a sort of early old age  it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
— Alexander Pope
To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
— Charles Lamb
Every invalid is a physician.
— Irish proverb
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money  he wouldn't lay a hand on you.
— Herb Shriner
Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once  but when they came they answered  as they took their fees  'There is no cure for this disease.'
— Hilaire Belloc
A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific  but it helps.
— Alexander D. Fleming
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
— George Bernard Shaw
A general flavour of mild decay  but nothing local  as one may say.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
— William Osier
I was sick  and ye visited me.
— Bible
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one  yet very little between a good one and none at all.
— Arthur Young
Nature  time and patience are the three great physicians.
— Proverbs
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
— Sir Auckland Geddes
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
— Michel de Montaigne
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
— John L. McClenahan
It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.
— Bela Schick
Those in the United States who  by and large  have the best medical care and advice readily available to them at the least expense are the families of the specialists in internal medicine. These families use less medicine and undergo less surgery on the whole than any other group  rich or poor.
— Edward C. Lambert
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Doctor  feel my purse.
— Jane Ace
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
— Henry Maudsley
There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest  unassuming ignorance  than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.
— Samuel Bard
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my youth  once  when I had a really exquisite toothache  I suddenly realized that my tooth had temporarily become the centre of the universe  that its outcries were more important than anything else  and that I would do absolutely anything to placate it. And as one gets older and starts worrying about cancer  one becomes more and more conscious of the fragility of the whole body  and with that consciousness comes a new and degrading kind of fear. It is degrading because it strengthens the desire to survive on any terms  and the desire to survive on any terms is the most base of all our instincts.
— Otto Friedrich
If a man thinks about his physical or moral state  he usually discovers that he is ill.
— Goethe
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life  provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
— Samuel Butler
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
— English proverb
Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know  but in a much more complicated manner.
— Alphonse Raymond Dochez
A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body  therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.
— Thomas Mann
Invalids live longest.
— German proverb
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
— Paul Dudley White
We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing  that it is growth rather than treatment.
— Arnold Lazarus
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say  'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.
— Itzhak Perlman
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it  you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
— Max Lerner
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
— Proverbs
So long as the body is affected through the mind  no audacious device  even of the most manifestly dishonest character  can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tranquillizers do not change our environment  nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers  fears  or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled  the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated  the spark and brilliance are also gone.
— Indra Devi
I am in a moment of pretty wellness.
— Horace Walpole
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
— Franklin Pierce Adams
When you hear hoofbeats  think of horses before zebras.
— Harley S. Smyth
The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.
— John H. Knowles
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
— Vauvenargues
Most things get better by themselves. Most things  in fact  are better by morning.
— Lewis Thomas
In medicine  sins of commission are mortal  sins of omission venial.
— Theodore Tronchin
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
— Thomas, Lord Horder
I came  I saw  I concurred.
— Irvine H. Page
Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
— Wilfred Trotter
The physician heals  Nature makes well.
— Aristotle
Nature  time  and patience are the three great physicians.
— H. G. Bohn
The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.
— Denis Diderot
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
— Beaumont and Fletcher
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
— English proverb
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
— Benjamin Franklin
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
— Benjamin Franklin
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used  could be sunk to the bottom of the sea  it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Physician  heal thyself.
— Bible
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little  to cure diseases of which they know less  in human beings of whom they know nothing.
— Voltaire
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
— Juvenal
Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
— William Shakespeare
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
— Jean Paul Richter
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival  the departure.
— Portuguese proverb
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
— C. Day Lewis
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
— Emily Dickinson
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence  else who could bear it?
— Nicholas Rowe
We only part to meet again.
— John Gay
Departure should be sudden.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain  and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A little while with grief and laughter  And then the day will close  The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.
— Donald R. P. Marquis
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
— Plutarch
I never forgive  but I always forget.
— Arthur James Balfour
In memory  everything seems to happen to music.
— Tennessee Williams
Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.
— Old saying
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
— Oscar Wilde
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
— Charles Dickens
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
— George Bernard Shaw
Memory  of all the powers of the mind  is the most delicate and frail.
— Ben Jonson
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
— Samuel Johnson
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
It isn't so astonishing  the number of things that I can remember  as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
— Mark Twain
For the sense of smell  almost more than any other  has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
— Rachel Carson
I have a remarkable memory  I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
— Jules Renard
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
— Michel de Montaigne
There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States  of course  I am speaking only from memory.
— Edgar Wilson Nye
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture  the additional act.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
'The horror of that moment ' the King went on  T shall never  never forget!' 'You will  though 'the Queen said  'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'
— Lewis Carroll
If  after I depart this vale  you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost  forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
— H. L. Mencken
If a man can remember what he worried about last week  he has a very good memory.
— Anonymous
That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour  but that which we have forgotten having said  or even what we never said  will cause laughter even into the next world.
— Marcel Proust
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
— Thomas Fuller
We forget because we must And not because we will.
— Matthew Arnold
Memory is the thing you forget with.
— Alexander Chase
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
— Chinese proverb
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone complains of his lack of memory  but nobody of his want of judgement.
— La Rochefoucauld
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
— Simone Signoret
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
— James M. Barrie
To want to forget something is to think of it.
— French proverb
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
— Louis Dudek
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
— Sir William Blackstone
To live in hearts we leave behind  Is not to die.
— Thomas Campbell
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
— Joseph Conrad
Don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice  whose hair was so brown  Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile  And trembl'd with fear at your frown!
— Thomas Dunn
English I remember  I remember  The house where I was born  The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn  He never came a wink too soon  Nor brought too long a day  But now  I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
— Thomas Hood
We must always have old memories and young hopes.
— Arsene Houssaye
All to myself I think of you  Think of the things we used to do  Think of the things we used to say  Think of each happy bygone day  Sometimes I sigh  and sometimes I smile  But I keep each olden  golden while All to myself.
— Wilbur D. Nesbit
Women and elephants never forget.
— Dorothy Parker
If I do not remember thee  let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
— Bible
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
— R. B. Sheridan
A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.
— Anonymous
Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife  a man who shaves and takes a train  and then rides back to shave again.
— E. B. White
Eve left Adam  to meet the Devil in private.
— Alexander Pope
I should like to see any kind of a man  distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is a truth universally acknowledged  that a single man in possession of a good fortune  must be in want of a wife.
— Jane Austen
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
— Mason Cooley
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain  therefore  to treat them as if they were equal.
— J. A. Froude
That all men are equal is a proposition to which  at ordinary times  no sane individual has ever given his assent.
— Aldous Huxley
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
When women go wrong  men go right after them.
— Mae West
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
— Oscar Wilde
Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
— Samuel Hoffenstein
If men and women are to understand each other  to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy  and to become capable of genuine comradeship  the foundation must be laid in youth.
— Havelock Ellis
A man's idee in a card game is war- crool  devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny  embezzlement an' burglary.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough  and need career no further. If a man marries  on the other hand  public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
— Rose Macaulay
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine  what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
— Susan Sontag
In our civilization  men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
— Theodor Reik
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others  a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
— C. S. Lewis
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
— Dion Boucicault
If a man hears much that a woman says  she is not beautiful.
— Henry S. Haskins
There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.
— Joseph Epstein
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
— Dorothy Parker
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man  but for this to endure  it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was very young  I kissed my first woman  and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me  never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
— Arturo Toscanini
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women  and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
— H. L. Mencken
Flirtation - attention without intention.
— Max O'Neil
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment  the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
— Samuel Johnson
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
— James Thurber
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women  and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
— Theodor Reik
I love men  not because they are men  but because they are not women.
— Christina, Queen of Sweden
It women knew what we were thinking  they'd never stop slapping us.
— Larry Miller
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
— Erma Bombeck
A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
— Nancy Reagan
Macho does not prove mucho.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
Tell me about yourself - your struggles  your dreams  your telephone number.
— Peter Arno
Be pretty if you can  be witty if you must  be agreeable if it kills you.
— Elsie de Wolfe
For a single woman  preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
— Elayne Boosler
She has such a nice sense of rumor.
— John Cutler
If you ever leave me  I'll go with you.
— Rene Taylor
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.
— Jacob Braude
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
— Lady Nancy Astor
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
— Mark Twain
Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
— Linda Ellerbee
Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers.
— Rita Rudner
If the world were a logical place  men would ride sidesaddle.
— Rita Mae Brown
Outside every thin girl is a fat man  trying to get in.
— Anonymous
You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.
— Jay Leno
I want to know why  if men rule the world  they don't stop wearing neckties.
— Linda Ellerbee
There are more men than women in mental hospitals - which just goes to show who's driving who crazy.
— Peter Veale
Dennis Thatcher  husband of Margaret Thatcher  when asked who wore the pants in his house  said "I do  and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men  domestic and foreign.
— Mae West
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future  adjusting to their new and complicated role.
— Anna Ford
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
— Anthony Trollope
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
— Andre Gide
The follies which a man regrets most  in his life  are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
— Helen Rowland
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
— Lord Longford
What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
— Edgar Wallace
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
— Michel de Montaigne
Men become old  but they never become good.
— Oscar Wilde
Men are what their mothers made them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men's men: be they gentle or simple  they're much of a muchness.
— George Eliot
To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.
— Julius Fucik
A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.
— Luigi Banzini
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
— Goethe
Every man in the world is better than someone else  and not as good as someone else.
— William Saroyan
This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
— Herodotus
The world is my country  the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god  the future of man is my heaven.
— F. R. Scott
The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals  Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male  except his superior muscle.
— Bertrand Russell
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
— Francoise Sagan
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
— Sean O'Faolain
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts  and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly  they don't have to sew buttons.
— Heywood Broun
As vivacity is the gift of women  gravity is that of men.
— Joseph Addison
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being  but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
— Immanuel Kant
Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.
— Blaise Pascal
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
— Mark Twain
When I was young  I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
— Artur Rubinstein
A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
— Sigmund Freud
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
— Charles Baudelaire
At twenty a man is a peacock  at thirty a lion  at forty a camel  at fifty a serpent  at sixty a dog  at seventy an ape  at eighty  nothing at all.
— Baltasar Gracian
There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom  lovers of honour  lovers of gain.
— Plato
Among the attributes of God  although they are all equal  mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him.
— Bible
Tis mightiest in the mightiest  it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown  His sceptre shows the force of temporal power  The attribute to awe and majesty  Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings  But mercy is above this sceptred sway  It is enthroned in the hearts of kings  It is an attribute to God himself  And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
— William Shakespeare
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.
— W. S. Gilbert
Merry have we met  and merry have we been  Merry let us part  and merry meet again  With our merry sing-song  happy gay  and free  With a merry ding-dong  happy let us be!
— Old English Rhyme
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
— Bible
Let us eat  and be merry.
— Bible
Once upon a midnight dreary  while I pondered weak and weary  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
— Edgar Allan Poe
God is Mind  and God is infinite  hence all is Mind.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The true  strong  and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
— Samuel Johnson
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
— T. H. Key
The mind is its own place  and in itself Can make a heaven of hell  a hell of heaven.
— John Milton
A feeble body weakens the mind.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tis but a base  ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
— William Shakespeare
A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will  it is reported  raise her skirt to cover her face.
— Raymond Mortimer
10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I want to be the white man's brother  not his brother-in-law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel  Athens  Florence  Elizabethan England.
— Dean William R. Inge
How a minority  Reaching majority  Seizing authority  Hates a minority!
— Leonard H. Robbins
In the country of the blind  the one-eyed man is king.
— Erasmus
By gnawing through a dyke  even a rat may drown a nation.
— Edmund Burke
The thing we have to fear in this country  to my way of thinking  is the influence of the organized minorities  because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength  but they give no expression of it.
— Alfred E. Smith
We must indeed all hang together  or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
— Benjamin Franklin
A minority may be right  and a majority is always wrong.
— Henrik Ibsen
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.
— Wendell Phillips
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess  it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.
— Raymond B. Fosdick
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
— Carl T. Rowan
Shall we judge a country by the majority  or by the minority? By the minority  surely.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One dog barks at something  the rest bark at him.
— Chinese proverb
The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
— Japanese proverb
He that is down need fear no fall.
— John Bunyan
Misery loves company.
— English proverb
Fire tries gold  misery tries brave men.
— Seneca
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
— William Shakespeare
Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.
— Czech proverb
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune  but great minds rise above it.
— Washington Irving
We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.
— La Rochefoucauld
Let us be of good cheer  however  remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
— James Russell Lowell
The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."
— William Shakespeare
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life  and find solace in fantasy.
— G. K. Chesterton
All sins cast long shadows.
— Irish proverb
Every time history repeats itself  the price goes up.
— Old saying
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.
— J. A. Froude
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
— Georges Bidault
Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
— Freeman Teague
Too much talk will include errors.
— Burmese proverb
What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
— Old saying
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct  is quite a man.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I beseech you  in the bowels of Christ  think it possible you may be mistaken.
— Oliver Cromwell
Men are men  they needs must err.
— Euripides
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
— Goethe
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More  Bacon  Grotius  Pascal  Cromwell  Bossuet  Montesquieu  Jefferson  Napoleon  Pitt  etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
— Lord Acton
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
— Josh Billings
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
— Jessamyn West
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day  like those of a baseball player.
— Anonymous
It's over  and can't be helped  and that's one consolation  as they always say in Turkey  when they cut the wrong man's head off.
— Charles Dickens
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish  and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
— Norman Douglas
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mob is a sort of bear  while your ring is through its nose  it will even dance under your cudgel  but should the ring slip  and you lose your hold  the brute will turn and rend you.
— Jane Porter
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads  but no brains.
— Antoine de Rivarol
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet  neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
To live long  it is necessary to live slowly.
— Cicero
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue  but moderation in principle is always a vice.
— Thomas Paine
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
— Plautus
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
— Bible
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
— Honore de Balzac
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
— Lord Chesterfield
Modesty died when false modesty was born.
— S. L. Clemens
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
— S. L. Clemens
A modest man never talks of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere