I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>