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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“There's daggers in men's smiles.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a Dream” - 28 August 1963

“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“We should be men first, and subjects afterward.” Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” - 1849

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget:” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“Men from children nothing differ.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“Men's vows are women's traitors!” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“A true man does what he will, not what he must.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.” Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” - 1849

“Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.” Aristotle, “Politics”

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“Teach me to speak the language of men.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“In fact my popularity seemed almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.” Jane Austen, “Emma” - 1815

“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Men should be what they seem.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“Women will love her that she is a woman more worth than any man; men, that she is the rarest of all women.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“Homo is a common name to all men.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” - 1843

“That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this: men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

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