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Quotes About Interaction

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
~ Bill Bryson
The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
~ John Berger
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The game women play is men.
~ Adam Smith
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
~ Alan Perlis
A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"
~ Henny Youngman
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
~ Confucius
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
~ Euripides
Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
~ Eve Arnold
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
~ William Dunbar
Never call a man a fool; borrow from him
~ Addison Mizner
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
~ Brand Blanshard
The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
~ Max Beerbohm
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A man of no conversation should smoke.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
~ Jonathan Swift
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
~ Samuel Johnson
A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.
~ Scarlett Johansson
One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.
~ Sharon Olds