#Men

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."

"Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil."

"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

"Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love."

"Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship."

"You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this."

"Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler."

"Great hopes make great men."

"This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes."

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

"I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive."

"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."

"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."

"I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men."

"Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division."