Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. – Alice Thomas Ellis
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. – Honore de Balzac
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. – Joseph Smith, Jr.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide. – James A. Baldwin
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont