funny quotes about men

If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. ~Emerson, Journals, 1827


In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. ~Astrid Alauda


There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set. ~Harriet van Horne


The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson


The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~Voltaire


Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan


Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. ~Austin O'Malley


To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ~Thomas Jefferson


What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb


If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~Gene Tunney


The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ~Joan Collins


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In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between. ~Lemony Snicket


Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett


Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. ~Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby


The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ~Wendell Berry


Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane


If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939