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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
The Odyssey, Homer

11:30 am, by eagerfeet-463 notes

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie

06:02 am, by eagerfeet-758 notes

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

07:12 pm, by eagerfeet-942 notes

And on and on it went that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man who was so full of loving echoes.
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

11:30 am, by eagerfeet-163 notes

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

07:23 pm, by eagerfeet-189 notes

If a man has to say trust me it’s a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words.
Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier

08:17 am, by eagerfeet-145 notes

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Letters of E.B. White, E.B. White

12:05 am, by eagerfeet-209 notes

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

09:52 am, by eagerfeet-90 notes

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

05:22 pm, by eagerfeet-109 notes

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust

09:29 pm, by eagerfeet-76 notes