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Quotes About Reflection

I never thought about doing men. Never.
~ Debbie Reynolds
An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.
~ Don Henley
I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.
~ Doris Lessing
how peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.
~ Dorothy Eden
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
~ Duane Michals
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
~ E. B. White
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
~ Edward Abbey
By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!
~ Edward Furlong
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
~ Edward Young
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Every man is like the company he wont to keep.
~ Euripides
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
~ Felix Schelling
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.
~ Frederick Lenz
Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
~ Gelett Burgess
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
~ Gene Wolfe
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
~ George Eliot
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
~ George Eliot
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
~ Gloria Steinem
If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.
~ Groucho Marx
Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.
~ Lin Yutang