Psychology Quote by Plutarch

“The women seemed more industrious than the men, for they were housekeepers; and the noise of the Indian housewife patting her tortillas in preparation…

— Helen Josephine Sanborn

“Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty…

— George Orwell

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses,…

— Adolf Hitler

“How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty…

— Susan Abulhawa

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

“Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But…

— Marcus Aurelius

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“For they were, in the first place, even down to the very poorest, a well-fed people, with fewer luxuries than we, but more abundant…

— Charles Kingsley

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom…

— Marcel Proust