A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

No one wants to see curvy women.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.