Nora Ephron: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women, Knopf Publishing, New York, 1975
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.”
“It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.”
Source: Her Mother's Daughter
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
Source: Up from Slavery
Volume i, p. 526; see #Disputed below.
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents: Volume 1 Paperback: 001
“Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you."
Leo”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman”
Source: Justice Hall
“The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen
Context: Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls.”
“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”
Source: Royal Assassin
As quoted in The Golden Ratio (2002) by Mario Livio
“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”
“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”
“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack”
'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower
Source: No Man Is an Island
Source: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights
“As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.”
Source: When Harry Met Sally
A variant — "Professor Einstein, the learned scientist, once calculated that if all bees disappeared off the earth, four years later all humans would also have disappeared" — appears in The Irish Beekeeper, v.19-20, 1965-66, p74, citing Abeilles et Fleurs (Bees and Flowers, the house magazine of Union Nationale de l'Apiculture Française) for June 1965. Snopes.com mentions its use in a beekeepers' protest in 1994 in Europe http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp suggesting invention and attribution to Einstein for political reasons.
Misattributed
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”
Great Things Are Done
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“I shudder at the thought of men….
I'm due to fall in love again”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
Letter to his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei (1796)
1790s
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Source: Mansfield Park (1814)
“I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying”
Source: Citizen: An American Lyric
Source: The Song of Achilles
Source: Walden
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart
Context: There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. … What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Chapter 14, “The Name of the Wind” (p. 113)
Context: Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
Variant translation: In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVII.
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
Speech at Catholic University, Columbus School of Law http://web.archive.org/web/20040704015129/http://www.law.cua.edu/News/Things%20That%20Never%20Were.cfm (2004).
2000s
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 69.
Gene, on the war activities around Devon.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 89
“My pleasure, sir.”
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 251).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 272.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
Essays on Woman (1996), Spirituality of the Christian Woman (1932)
St. 10
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
“Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.”
Letter from Jones to the Marquis de Lafayette, (1 May 1779)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
Engineering Souls http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_sndgs03.html (March 22, 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“Badly off as the men… were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.”
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 11.
Maasir-i-alamgiri, translated into English by Sir Jadu-Nath Sarkar, Calcutta, 1947, pp. 107-120, also quoted in part in Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers. Different translation: “Darab Khan was sent with a strong force to punish the Rajputs of Khandela and demolish the great temple of that place.” (M.A. 171.) “He attacked the place on 8th March 1679, and pulled down the temples of Khandela and Sanula and all other temples in the neighbourhood.”(M.A. 173.) Sarkar, Jadunath (1972). History of Aurangzib: Volume III. App. V.
Quotes from late medieval histories, 1670s
Source: The Tamarisk Tree (1975), Ch. XIV
“He took his way to the abode of sacred Loyalty, seeking to discover her hidden purpose. It chanced that the goddess, who loves solitude, was then in a distant region of heaven, pondering in her heart the high concerns of the gods. Then he who gave peace to Nemea accosted her thus with reverence: "Goddess more ancient than Jupiter, glory of gods and men, without whom neither sea nor land finds peace, sister of Justice…"”
Ad limina sanctae
contendit Fidei secretaque pectora temptat.
arcanis dea laeta polo tum forte remoto
caelicolum magnas uoluebat conscia curas.
quam tali adloquitur Nemeae pacator honore:
'Ante Iouem generata, decus diuumque hominumque,
qua sine non tellus pacem, non aequora norunt,
iustitiae consors...'
Book II, lines 479–486
Punica
Sketch Eighth
The Encantadas (1854)
Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.
1920s, Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
Source: Language in Thought and Action (1949), Language as Symbolism, p. 27
History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany, Vol. III (1834)
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts (7 June 1945), quoted in Patton : Ordeal and Triumph (1970) by Ladislas Farago
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Speech to the Massachusetts State Senate http://friesian.com/ross/ca40/2002.htm#war (7 January 1914).
1910s, Speech to the Massachusetts State Senate (1914)
Patriotism and Government
Awards
Source: K. A. Chandrahasan, In pursuit of excellence (Performing Arts), "The Hindu", Sunday March 26, 1989
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 21, Concerning Excise
Papa Loved Mama, written by Kim Williams and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, Ropin' the Wind (1991)
"Petty Notes on Some Sex in America" first published in Playboy magazine (1961 - 1962)
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 80 http://books.google.com/books?id=3gtoAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA80&dq=%22come+across+men+of+letters+who+have+written+history+without+taking+part+in+public+affairs%22
1850s and later
