“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894Related quotes
"More Time for a Child" (written by Amber's sister, Anne-Fleur Cremers), My Kind of World (2004).
“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”
“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
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“A man is only a mature boy. The theatre widens as he ascends.”
September 20, 1870, as attributed in Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr. by William M. Ballie (2011)