James Stephens Men Quotations

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.