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121 " I never met a man that I didn't like. "
― Will Rogers
122 " So what else can I tell you?" I asked. " I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled her fingers under her chin. " Let's see. Are you a bed wetter?" " Am I a...?" " Bed wetter. I am asking if you are a bed wetter." I knew she was trying to get me to blink. But I wouldn't." No, ma'am. I leave my beds dry." " Not even a little drip every now and then?" " I'm trying hard to see how this is germane." " I'm gauging your honesty. What is the last periodical you read methodically?" " Vogue. Although, in the interest of full disclosure, that's mostly because I was in my mother's bathroom, enduring a rather long bowel movement. You know, the kind that requires Lamaze." " What adjective do you feel the most longing for?" That was easy. " I will admit I have a soft spot for fanciful." " Let's say I have a hundred million dollars and offer it to you. The only condition is that if you take it, a man in China will fall off his bicycle and die. What do you do?" " I don't understand why it matters whether he's in China or not. And of course I wouldn't take the money." The old woman nodded." Do you think Abraham Lincoln was a homosexual?" " All I can say for sure is that he never made a pass at me." " Are you a museumgoer?" " Is the pope a churchgoer?" " When you see a flower painted by Georgia O'Keefe, what comes to mind?" " That's just a transparent ploy to get me to say the word vagina, isn't it? There. I said it. Vagina. "
123 " How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, " Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, " That's your worry. "
124 " If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong? "
― Steven Wright
125 " You saw my leg?" " How can a man help what he sees?" he said. " And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg. "
126 " When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman. "
127 " I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) "
― Elizabeth Peters , Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
128 " Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. "
― Edgar Allan Poe , Ne Pariez Jamais Votre Tête Au Diable Et Autres Contes Non Traduits Par Baudelaire
129 " Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully.I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. “It was like being owned.”Some women like that.”Not me.”Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.”I doubt it. I couldn’t breathe with him kissing me.”One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”Right, and one day my prince might come.”I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are. "
― Karen Marie Moning , Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
130 " I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. "
― Mae West
131 " It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads? "
― Jennifer Egan , A Visit from the Goon Squad
132 " When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm? "
― Cat Johnson
133 " Why are we bringing him along, again?" Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister.Cecily put her hands on her hips. " Why are you bringing Tessa?" " Because Tessa and I are going to be married," Will said, and Tessa smiled; the way that Will's little sister could ruffle his feathers like no one else was still amusing to her." Well, Gabriel and I might well be married," Cecily said. " Someday." Gabriel made a choking noise, and turned an alarming shade of purple. Will threw up his hands. " You can't be married Cecily! You're only fifteen! When I get married, I'll be eighteen! An adult!" Cecily did not look impressed. " We may have a long engagement," she said. " But I cannot see why you are counseling me to marry a man my parents have never met." Will sputtered. " I am not counseling you to marry a man your parents have never met!" " Then we are in agreement. Gabriel must meet Mam and Dad. "
134 " God, I love a man who reads "
― Tiffany Reisz , Seven Day Loan (The Original Sinners, #0.15)
135 " Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. "
― Jean Kerr
136 " Sunshine, I... Starla's voice broke off as she entered the room and caught sight of him standing naked in the corner. She eyed him in an odd, detached way, as if he were an interesting piece of furniture.Talon and modesty were strangers, but the way she stared at him made him damned uncomfortable. In spite of the sunlight, Talon grabbed the pink blanket off the bed and clutched it to his middle.You know, Sunshine, you need to find a man like that to marry. Someone so well hung that even after three or four kids, he'd still be wall to wall.Talon gaped.Sunshine laughed. " Starla, you're embarrassing him. "
137 " The first duty of a man is to think for himself "
― José Martí
138 " Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. "
― Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged
139 " It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them? "
― Ken Kesey , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
140 " Until a man love God, can he love his neighbour. "
― Lailah Gifty, Akita