Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 5500.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
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