"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius | Action | 8 bookmarks

"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source | Men and Women | 13 bookmarks

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar | Men and Women | 16 bookmarks

"Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain."

Bowen, Elizabeth | Loneliness | 4 bookmarks

"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Bruyere, Jean De La | Loneliness | 6 bookmarks

"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."

Cheever, John | Loneliness | 5 bookmarks

"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself."

Esra, Abraham Ibn | Loneliness | 3 bookmarks

"One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house."

Frost, Robert | Loneliness | 2 bookmarks

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

Newton, Joseph Fort | Loneliness | 10 bookmarks

"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."

O'Neill, Eugene | Loneliness | 4 bookmarks