"Man weeps to think that he will..." - Quote by H L Mencken
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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“One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.”
“Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.”
“The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.”
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“The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.”
“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”
“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”
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“No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.”
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”