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When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
- Tina Fey
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
- Anthony Browne
Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.
- AW Pink
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
- CS Lewis
No man knows himself as an original.
- Washington Allston
I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
- Dolly Parton
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
- Aldous Huxley
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
- Barack Obama
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.
- St. Augustine