"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."

Man, Men, First, Open, Pretty

34

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Man, Woman

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Man, Men

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Man, Men, Want

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Man, Men, Women, Beginning

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Man, Men, Will

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Poor, Statesman

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Man,

"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Man, Men, Age, Purpose, Knight

"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Man, Men, Religion, Death, Argument

"Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Man,

Explore more quotes by George Jean Nathan

"It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on."

Time

"Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor."

Humor

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

Patriotism

"Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value."

Art

"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."

Direction

"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote."

Vote

"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."

Actor

"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."

Entertainment

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

Art

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

Man