Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. – Robert A. Heinlein

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. – William Butler Yeats

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. – Jean de La Fontaine