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.
Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He climbed...
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John Steinbeck
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.
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P.c. Cast
Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He grappled for the nearest...
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Ed Lynskey
A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that she should bear and care for and rear children. So I am a man created for another office and work. But should I...
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Martin Luther
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a...
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Candace Bushnell
More Quotes By Heywood Broun
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.
As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.
With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak." What will you do if I surrender?" he asked." Why, I'll eat you, " said the dragon." And if I don't surrender?"" I'll eat you just the same.
