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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

William Allen White

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

But a meek humble Man of modest Sense,
Who, Preaching Peace, does practice Continence;
Whose pious life's a proof he does believe,
Mysterious Truths, which no Man can conceive.
If upon Earth there dwell such God-like Men,
I'll here Recant my Paradox to them;
Adore those Shrines of Virtue, homage pay,
And, with the rabble world, their Laws obey.
If such there are, yet grant me This at least,
Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Professional men, they have no cares;
Whatever happens, they get theirs.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. His auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Ninon de Lenclos

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty's against all common Sense.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known.