Affair Quote by Gorgias

“ Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women. ”

— Francis Bacon

“Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He made no…

— Herman Melville

“Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is - which was the only way…

— Herman Melville

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any…

— George Santayana

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not…

— Ayn Rand

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some…

— Phyllis Bottome

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often…

— William McFee

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by…

— Michel de Montaigne

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way…

— George Eliot

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not…

— Thomas Hardy