quotes for guys about girls

I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. ~Author Unknown



It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer



Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors. ~Paul O'Neil



These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet



Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ~Mark Twain



What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. ~Mark Twain



Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown



He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack



I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. ~Woodrow Wilson



The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ~Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950



The feeling was elation.... I skip really big and fast. And the amazing thing is, it really cracks me up! I laugh out loud because it is so much fun! And I love to hold my arms out and flap them like a bird.... When I get to the bottom of the trail, I am drenched in sweat and riding high on endorphins from exercise plus laughter. ~Gail, as posted on iskip.com



My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. ~Indira Gandhi



I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die. ~William Wiley



One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane



Horse racing is animated roulette. ~Roger Kahn



People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb



Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. ~Kin Hubbard



There are unknown worlds of knowledge in brutes; and whenever you mark a horse, or a dog, with a peculiarly mild, calm, deep-seated eye, be sure he is an Aristotle or a Kant, tranquilly speculating upon the mysteries in man. No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. They see through us at a glance. And after all, what is a horse but a species of four-footed dumb man, in a leathern overall, who happens to live upon oats, and toils for his masters, half-requited or abused, like the biped hewers of wood and drawers of water? But there is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides. ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849



The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ~Samuel Butler