Quotes About Attitudes

You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

She sighed. "All men are the same." "So are all women—after the first nine.

American girls are terrific. American wives take too damn much territory.

People here talk about firearms and hunting in the same way that urban liberals go on about nutrition and exercise.

Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it?

To die from 'a draining away of one's strength caused by extreme old age' was in Montaigne's day a 'rare, singular and extraordinary death.' Nowadays we assume it as our right.

The conservative, the slow-witted and the envious existed in every profession.

Lenin found music depressing. Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music. Khrushchev despised music. Which is the worst for a composer?

Wagner had a mean soul, and it showed. He was evil in his anti-Semitism and his other racial attitudes. Therefore he could not be a genius, for all the burnish and glitter of his music.

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got.

People to watch out for: aggressive lappers, determined thrashers, oblivious backstrokers, stealthy sub-mariners, middle aged men who insist on speeding up the moment they sense they are about to be overtaken by a woman, tailgaters, lane nazi's, arm flailers, ankle yankers, pickup artists - we're not that kind of a pool - the peeper, a highly regarded children's TV host in his life above ground, who is best known below ground for his swift lane change.

Henceforth women were marginalized and became second-class citizens in the new civilizations of the Oikumene. Their position was particularly poor in Greece, for example—a fact that Western people should remember when they decry the patriarchal attitudes of the Orient.

shop-bought cakes are a sign of sluttish housewifery.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

The only thing worse than women are women who tell me I'm a misogynist.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.