How Men Think

Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz

Marriage is heaven and hell. - German Proverb

Character is perfectly educated will. - Novalis

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

Happiness is not the end of life; character is. - Henry Ward Beecher

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J.B. Gough

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

Love is a fair garden, and marriage a field of nettles. - Finnish Proverb

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. - Oscar Wilde

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster

There's one thing about a late marriage - it doesn't last long. - Unknown

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. - Woody Allen

Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown

Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything. - Walt Whitman

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. - Gloria Steinem

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution. - Chuck Martin

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. - Milton Berle

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life. - Jacqueline Bisset

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus

We learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. - Andrea Thompson

Your reputation is what you’re perceived to be, Your character is what you really are. - John Wooden

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas J. Barnardo

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. - Oscar Wilde

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. - Unknown

Don't be accusing me of taking a bribe. You know what they call that, "definition of character." - Archie Bunker

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere. - Jay Shetty

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships: we listen half, understand quarter, think zero, and react double. - Unknown

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. - Rick Baker

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint. - Callum Turner

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. - Charles De Gaulle

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown