We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Samuel Butler
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  2. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. - Tiffany Madison

  3. It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. - Deb Caletti

  4. The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too - Vincent Van Gogh

  5. A gentleman holds my hand. A man pulls my hair. A soulmate will do both. - Alessandra Torre

More Quotes By Samuel Butler
  1. Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

  2. All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  3. Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...

  4. [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

  5. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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