When the candles are out all women are fair.
—Robin Morgan
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
—Scott Adams
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
—Susan Sontag
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
—Timothy Leary
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
—William Shakespeare
A woman impudent and mannish grown is not more loathed than an effeminate man in time of action.
—William Shakespeare
A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, muddy,
ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
—William Shakespeare
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.
—William Shakespeare
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
—William Shakespeare
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core.
—William Shakespeare
Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.
—William Shakespeare
He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
—William Shakespeare
His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!
—William Shakespeare
How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.
—Unknown
Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts.… To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.
—Albert Schweitzer