Apparently, your nannies have been feeding you such porridge since you were a child, so that even with gray hair, a man will not stop clinging to women!
The human soul is the same, that of a Cossack and that of a woman: once you destroy it, you will not get another.
— Panteleimon Kulish
The most terrible thing during the retreat was the crying of the women. When I think of retreat now, I see long, long roads, and numerous villages, and suburbs, and everywhere women's unspeakable weeping. Ukraine cried.
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers – forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that those who have done the most in the church’s history have been, without exception, men and women of prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
“Oh that we may have such an estimate of the value of a single soul that we count whole days well spent to bring one fallen woman or one drunkard to the Saviour’s feet.”
“We want experienced men and women to talk to converted children, and to tell them what the Lord has done for them, and what have been their dangers, their sins, their sorrows, and their comforts.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We want experienced men and women to talk to converted children, and to tell them what the Lord has done for them, and what have been their dangers, their sins, their sorrows, and their comforts.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.
—Pablo Picasso
It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers – forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that those who have done the most in the church’s history have been, without exception, men and women of prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
—Nikolai Gogol
A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.
—Seneca
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
—Charles Dickens
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
—Oscar Wilde
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman.
—Seneca
Woman wants control, man self-control .
—Immanuel Kant
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
—Oscar Wilde
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.
—Mark Twain
Any one of us, no matter how outcast or vile, can go boldly into the Holy of Holies on the ground of the shed blood, and the best man or woman that ever walked this earth can meet God on no other ground than the shed blood.
—R. A. Torrey
There are men and women who have a sorrow of such a character that they cannot confide it to any human ear; and they say: “Nobody knows it. Nobody sympathizes with me.” Yes, there is One who knows, and He sympathizes with you—God.
—R. A. Torrey
If there is any man or woman who thinks they have a complete mastery over themselves, if there is any man who thinks he has power to break away in his own strength from the sin that is within, he is a sadly deceived man.
—R. A. Torrey
The church is made up men and women, imperfect men and women, and consequently it is an imperfect institution, but none the less it is of divine origin and God loves it, and every believer should realize that he belongs to it and should openly take his place in it.
—R. A. Torrey
Sin is that which has defiled God’s work, God’s image, in man and woman.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Many a man that shines and glitters now on the platform will soon be forgotten, but the man or woman who does anything for Christ will never be forgotten.
—D. L. Moody
God gave man and woman a perfect start, but they did not appreciate God’s perfection.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The world itself is proving the Bible’s fundamental postulate that men and women, in and of themselves, cannot arrive at the truth concerning their greatest needs.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I don’t think any man or woman knows what true liberty is until they have been set free by the Lord Jesus Christ.
—D. L. Moody