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Quotes About Dependency

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
~ Anita Loos
Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!
~ Baroness Orczy
…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.
~ Charles Bukowski
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
~ Chris Priestley
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
~ David Mitchell
I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.
~ Dionne Warwick
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
~ George Eliot
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
~ George Farquhar
A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
~ George MacDonald
Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
When he is sick, every man wants his mother.
~ Philip Roth
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
~ Richard Hooker
A man in armour is his armour's slave.
~ Robert Browning
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
~ Robert Browning
It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.
~ Kate Winslet
I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.
~ Katie Holmes
To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.
~ James Cook
It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?
~ Bill Hicks
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.
~ Daniel Johns