Mary Roberts Rinehart Men Quotations

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.