Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

My mother said to me 'If you are a soldier you will become a general. If you are a monk you will become the Pope.' Instead I was a painter and became Picasso.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

He had read much if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men men are not united but merely lined up.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property the landlords like all other men love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women let it pass for when love is in the way men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law but we do want them for our brothers.

When women are depressed they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.

The men who learn endurance are they who call the whole world brother.

Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.

Although I do wrong I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature like other men. No man lives without fault.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

If all men knew what others say of them there would not be four friends in the world.

Landlords like all other men love to reap where they never sowed.