Quotes About Contrast

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prison they let you play Softball on the weekends.

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Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it's a brutal world, man.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, And tell the world that everything's okay, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, Till things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.