quotes about guys being confusing

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ~Sir Thomas Browne


Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash


In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. ~Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974


Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. ~Author Unknown


Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. ~Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927


Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History


He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy


Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. ~Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen


Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown


He struggles to exude authority. He furrows his brow, trying to look more sagacious, but he ends up looking as if he has indigestion. Appearing confused at his own speech, he seems like a first-grade actor in a production of James and the Giant Peach. Are his blinks Morse code for "Oh, man, don't let that teleprompter break?" ~Maureen Dowd, about George W. Bush


Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life. ~Carrie Latet


Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown


The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. ~Germaine Greer


A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. ~Marlene Dietrich


Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets


To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs