Pastoral Resources

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.