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Quotes About Vulnerability

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.
~ Joe Hill
All men would be cowards if they could.
~ John Wilmot
A child is an angel dependent on man
~ Joseph de Maistre
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
~ Josh Billings
I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'
~ Josh Hutcherson
Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
~ Laurence Sterne
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
~ Rumi
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
~ Seneca the Younger
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.
~ Christine Keeler
We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
~ David O. McKay
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
~ Albert Camus
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
~ Berthold Auerbach
A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
~ Brenda Holloway
Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!
~ Bret Harte
Examples are few of men ruined by giving.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee