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Men Quotes by Barbara Mertz
- When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.
- No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
- Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
- I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be…
- ..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything…
- If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
- Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty…
- Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
- I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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