“Why don't the men propose, Mamma?
Why don't the men propose?”

“Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?”

“Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”

“I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.”

“The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.”

“Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.”

“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”

“Why is this all so hard? Why do these old men need it so hard?”