Quotes About Standards

Women are less aesthetic than men.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

My mom used to tell me: It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards