Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen keller
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. John Burroughs
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character. Marilyn Monroe
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out. Chris Abani
That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world. Michael Chang
The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women. Bill Toomey
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. George William Curtis
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know. Marilyn Monroe
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. Aristotle
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. Christian Nestell Bovee