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Man Quotes by George Jean Nathan
- A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
- The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims…
- A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for…
- What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
- A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
- Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
- A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
- No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
- A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as…
- I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
- Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up…
- No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.
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