Quotables

Consider these quotes about truth, sex, beauty and love:

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

"The truth is more important than the facts."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

Herbert Agar

"Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading."

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Abraham Lincoln

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."

Japanese Proverb

"Sex is not a need. It is a gift. You need air, water, and food. If you don’t get sex you’re not going to die. Nothing’s going to fall off. "

Pam Stenzel

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Sex does not equal love. If it did, why would so many people be walking around with their hearts in a million pieces?"

Toni Davis, Relationship Education Team Member

"I don't think there could be much more of a contradiction than our society telling us we can have whatever we want, as long as we work hard for it, and then turning around and suggesting it's impossible to have a successful marriage."

Melissa Brown, Relationship Education Team Member

"Since when did our feelings become our main source of truth? Last time I checked, truth remains true no matter how you feel."

Anonymous

"A real man protects a woman from anything and everything that could hurt her—including himself."

A Real Man

"Beauty is not the make-up you wear, the dress you squeeze into, or the supermodel you envy...it is your very essence, because you are woman. When a baby girl is born into this world, she is beautiful. When she grows into a little girl, she dances and giggles, and she is beautiful. When she becomes a woman, she is gentle enough to bear a child yet strong enough to deliver it...beautiful, something a man can never do. As she ages, she grows in being nurturing, relational, soft, and wise. She is the essence of beauty, just by the virtue of the fact that she is female."

Another Real Man