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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.


Marcus Garvey

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
FRANCIS BACON Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
FRANCIS BACON Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Generally speaking, a man speaks occasionally lies with his mouth to the women to a required measure...
ANUJ SOMANY ...instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you righ...
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been...
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I was...
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
GEORGE W. BUSH The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil. but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV Married love between a man & woman, man & man and woman & woman is an oaths based on unconditional l...
EDWARD SQUIRE There is perhaps no one who gives so much pain to a man but a woman who enters in his life as girlfr...
ANUJ SOMANY Hay quien prefiere ser el primer amor. Yo he preferido siempre ser el último.
RAMóN DEL VALLE INCLáN Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I pre...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be goo...
LINDA FESTA What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GOOD MAN OR WOMAN AND A GREAT MAN OR WOMAN IS GREAT ADVERTISING.
DONALD LYNN FROST In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a wom...
HONORE DE BALZAC The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman ...
PETER KREEFT A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
LOUISE NEVELSON Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men ...
SHIRLEY BASSEY How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the...
HENRY MILLER Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
MARYON PEARSON A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN every man and woman is a star
ALEISTER CROWLEY Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the int...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Woman understand children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN Every man and every woman is a star.
ALEISTER CROWLEY What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see...
HELEN ROWLAND An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A ...
IRENE TOMKINSON A woman simply is, but a man must become.
CAMILLE PAGLIA A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile...
ALFRED HAMILTON BARR If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's ...
BARBARA WALTERS When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
WOODROW WYATT Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - a...
HELEN ROWLAND In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him
PROVERB To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman
JOHN GAY A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man
GEORGE MEREDITH A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM The coming together of a man and woman was a holy thing, after all. God had chosen this way of reple...
NAOMI RAGEN Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and ...
HELEN ROWLAND The love between a man and a woman acts like a mousetrap to lure a man towards a woman enticing him ...
ANUJ SOMANY Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
VICTORIA WOODHULL A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is c...
RUTHIE STEIN Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man a...
WOODY ALLEN Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the r...
WOODY ALLEN Reason, Why a Woman is called 'WOMAN'... ? B'coz, She can wooo MAN....
ASHISH SOPHAT It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong a...
CRISS JAMI The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reas...
FULTON J. SHEEN I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso...
DEBORAH KERR A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
MASON COOLEY Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.
CECIL MYERS What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doe...
OSCAR WILDE A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
SEX AND THE CITY The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
GEORGE JAMES Man compared to nature is a woman.
GEORGE OTERO There is a man in every woman.
MUHAMMED HAIDER A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.
ROBERT BLACK What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
EVELYN WAUGH What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGH God's image is the married couple, a man and woman, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. ...
POPE FRANCIS We believe a marriage is between one man and one woman.
KEITH LEONARD The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman ...
FULTON J. SHEEN What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD BYRON Not every man is a demon and not every woman is a goddess .
KANAV ATRI Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.
MARCIA CLARK If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman
MUNIA KHAN It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to b...
BERYL BAINBRIDGE What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ...
SYLVIA PLATH The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do...
VIRGIL The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

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MARCUS AURELIUS Confine yourself to the present.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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MARCUS AURELIUS If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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MARCUS AURELIUS And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
MARCUS DOLENGO Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
GREIL MARCUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
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